Bronze Age natural selection accelerated human evolution, challenging long-held beliefs about genetic adaptation.
Shapes of beaks and snouts come in an extraordinary range of forms, reflecting adaptations to different lifestyles and ...
A glass of milk can still mark a line through humanity. For most adults, drinking it brings discomfort because the body ...
Scientists analyze 22,000 genomes documenting hundreds of genetic changes due to natural selection over the past 10,000 years ...
Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift—driven not by genes, but by culture. "Human evolution seems to be changing ...
On Valentine’s Day in 2018, a team of scientists walked across a flat expanse in the badlands of northeastern Ethiopia, scanning the ground for fossils. An eagle-eyed field assistant, Omar Abdulla, ...
South Africa has one of the world’s richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many misconceptions still exist regarding human evolution, and school textbooks contain ...