A massive study of ancient and modern DNA from thousands of West Eurasian people has identified nearly 500 genetic variants ...
A glass of milk can still mark a line through humanity. For most adults, drinking it brings discomfort because the body ...
Many people today simply assume that our evolution has quietly ended with the development of the modern human. It's easy to think that medicine, science, and modern living have made us "perfect" or ...
New 3D analysis of a German skull clears up decades of confusion, placing this human firmly in the modern family tree.
A new paper by evolutionary anthropologists Colin Shaw (University of Zurich) and Daniel Longman (Loughborough University) argues that modern life has outpaced human evolution. The study suggests that ...
Not every modern human has the same set of Neanderthal DNA, however; different people will, by chance, have inherited different fragments. But there are also some areas, termed “Neanderthal deserts,” ...
From rigid brow ridges to expressive arches, your eyebrows tell a story of how human faces evolved to signal emotion, ...
The evolutionary success of our species may have hinged on minute changes to our brain biochemistry after we diverged from the lineage leading to Neanderthals and Denisovans about half a million years ...