Scientists analyze 22,000 genomes documenting hundreds of genetic changes due to natural selection over the past 10,000 years, including variants linked to celiac disease and multiple sclerosis The ...

The research unveils a more intricate narrative of innovation, intelligence, and human evolution in East Asia.

Malaria may have shaped early human life across Africa far earlier than once thought, steering where people could safely live ...

A new review highlights how human evolution has shaped the presence of pathogenic variations in DNA damage repair (DDR) genes, offering a new perspective on why modern populations face increased ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

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A new study of wrist bones suggests human ancestors may have shared a knuckle-walking past with chimpanzees and gorillas.

Researchers reveals how walking on two legs and expanding brain size drove the evolution of human right-handedness.

No matter where you are in the world, the humans living there are about 90 percent right-handed while the remaining 10 ...

When Richard Dawkins’s first blockbuster book was published half a century ago, few genes had ever been sequenced or studied in detail. Yet the book’s gene-centred view of evolution still has much to ...