Whoever’s filming can barely hold the camera steady because it’s just too dang cute. Whether it’s online or in person, we’ve ...

Over the past 10,000 years, evolution in West Eurasia has selected for light skin, red hair and resistance to HIV in humans, ...

Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA ...

The human body is full of evolutionary compromises. The loss of the tail may be one of the clearest examples of how change ...

The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...

Data from more than 15,000 ancient people reveal natural selection of hundreds of genes linked to immunity, skin tone, ...

Researchers identified an early mammal ancestor whose eggs may have helped it survive the Great Dying 250 million years ago.

Another complication is that sustained genetic variation does not emerge exclusively as a result of natural selection.

A detailed analysis of the best-preserved Neanderthal infant skeleton ever found suggests that our ancient relatives grew ...

Detailed imaging of a 250-million-year-old fossil has revealed the first proof that the ancestors of mammals laid eggs. The ...