New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...

A landmark Harvard-led study analyzing nearly 16,000 ancient genomes from West Eurasia reveals that natural selection has ...

The DNA blueprint we carry around with us today has been influenced far more by natural selection than we thought, a massive ...

A new genetic analysis of Neanderthal remains from Stajnia Cave offers an unusually detailed glimpse into a small group that lived together roughly 100,000 years ago.

High on a cliff in Lushan county of Pingdingshan city, Central China's Henan province, a small cave is rewriting the story of the region's earliest modern humans. The Xianrendong site, or "Immortal's ...

Genomic data provides evidence for a previously unknown wave of migration, with Indigenous groups living in central and ...

A landmark Harvard-led study analyzing nearly 22,000 ancient and modern genomes has identified 479 genetic variants shaped by natural selection in West Eurasia over the past 10,000 years. The findings ...