Many people are familiar with the concept of natural selection and “survival of the fittest.” While modern humans may look like they’ve been at their “fittest” for hundreds of thousands of years, new ...

Applying new analytic methods to nearly 16,000 ancient genomes reveals natural selection has acted on hundreds, not dozens, of genes in West Eurasia over the last 10,000 years. More than half of the ...

A review article now published in Nature Reviews Genetics brings together evolutionary theory, comparative genomics and large ...

Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA indicates that natural selection continued to shape hundreds of genes. By Carl ...

The whole world could soon be seeing red. Instead of being the punchline, redheads will have the last laugh, as a new study reports that humans have been constantly evolving to have flame-colored hair ...

Gingers have been typecast throughout history. Aristotle believed red hair to be a sign of courage, while writers of the Middle Ages viewed it as an indication of wild passions. Yet for those who have ...

Some 4,000 years ago, as ancient civilizations such as the Minoans in Crete and the Neo-Sumerian Empire in Mesopotamia were shaping cultures in Europe and the Middle East, human biology itself was ...

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