First detected in 2015, gravitational waves may not have had a direct hand in human evolution, but it certainly helped set ...

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It wasn’t just today’s bodies that told the story. Ancient DNA backed it up. The researchers traced the variant through time.

Maba 1] is well-known for the Neanderthal-like face, while its neurocranium shows affinities with many hominin taxa, which ...

Also known as selective breeding, artificial selection is the human-guided cousin of evolution by natural selection. Instead ...

Humans that call the Tibetan Plateau home are evolving right before our eyes, and scientists are watching as it happens.

Scientists have successfully extracted ancient proteins from two-million-year-old teeth, a breakthrough providing previously unobtainable details on ...

A cutting-edge technique for analyzing fossil tooth enamel is revealing remarkable new information about 2 million-year-old ...

Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to ...

Despite our evolution into an age dominated by AI, automation and digital transformation, one truth remains unchanged: ...

Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to survive hundreds of years by adjusting its virulence and the length of time ...

Neanderthal populations suffered a single late genetic bottleneck, refuting long-held theories about their diversity.