Over the past 10,000 years, evolution in West Eurasia has been selecting for light skin, red hair and resistance to HIV and ...

A futurist has claimed that there are three phases of human evolution, and our species is currently in the second phase. Jeffrey Charles Hardy, who founded the non-profit Care for Peace, developed a ...

Ancient DNA reveals how farming accelerated human evolution, driving genetic changes over the past 10,000 years.

The human body is full of evolutionary compromises. The loss of the tail may be one of the clearest examples of how change ...

Data from more than 15,000 ancient people reveal natural selection of hundreds of genes linked to immunity, skin tone, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an ...

We didn't develop large brains or intelligence because we starting eating more animals, according to a study into human evolution. While there is archaeological evidence for Homo erectus eating more ...

Humans and chimpanzees differ in only one percent of their DNA. Human accelerated regions (HARs) are parts of the genome with an unexpected amount of these differences. HARs were stable in mammals for ...

Social Competition May Be Reason For Bigger Brain: "Our findings suggest brain size increases the most in areas with larger populations and this almost certainly increased the intensity of social ...

Modern medicine’s ability to keep us alive makes it tempting to think human evolution may have stopped. Better healthcare disrupts a key driving force of evolution by keeping some people alive longer, ...

The threat of infants being killed by unrelated males is the key driver of monogamy in humans and other primates. The study by academics from UCL, University of Manchester, University of Oxford and ...

Are humans natural born runners? Here’s why evolutionary and anatomical evidence suggests running was more central to our ...