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

(Westend61/Getty Images) The DNA blueprint we carry around with us today has been influenced far more by natural selection ...

Human aging is not what natural selection failed to prevent. It is what happens when selection simply has nothing left to act ...

The whole world could soon be seeing red. Instead of being the punchline, redheads will have the last laugh, as a new study ...

A massive study of ancient and modern DNA from thousands of West Eurasian people has identified nearly 500 genetic variants ...

What happens when natural selection, the most powerful process driving change in the living world, shapes artificial intelligence (AI), perhaps the most potent technology humanity has invented to date ...

Over the past 10,000 years, evolution in West Eurasia has selected for light skin, red hair and resistance to HIV in humans, according to a new study.

When our distant ancestors first traded nomadic life for farming, villages, and permanent homes, you might assume that the ...

A Harvard study indicates natural selection has favored red hair for millennia, suggesting redheads may become more common as ...

A massive study of ancient DNA from nearly 16,000 people across more than 10,000 years in West Eurasia reveals that natural selection has shaped modern human genomes far more than previously thought.

Poison frogs appear to have built their chemical defenses gradually: related frogs store low to moderate levels of ...

Scientists analyze 22,000 genomes documenting hundreds of genetic changes due to natural selection over the past 10,000 years ...