Multiple groundbreaking studies are reshaping our understanding of evolution, revealing rapid genetic changes in humans and plants over recent millennia. Research on Indigenous Americans uncovered ...

A Harvard-led team analyzed nearly 16,000 ancient and 6,400 modern genomes from Western Eurasia, uncovering 479 gene variants shaped by natural selection over the past 10,000 years. The findings show ...

Ancient DNA from a megalithic tomb near Paris reveals a dramatic population collapse followed by the arrival of entirely new ...

The Xianrendong site, or "Immortal's Cave", located about 800 kilometers south of Beijing, was first discovered in 2020.

A system once tied to DNA organization in cyanobacteria has evolved into a structure that shapes the cell itself. This shift ...

The research, part of the Indigenous American Genomic Diversity Project, combined newly sequenced genomes with existing databases to analyze a total of 199 contemporary Indigenous individuals from 53 ...

New research uncovers potential genetic advantages–and disadvantages—linked to having red hair. Here's what's behind this.

An analysis of ancient DNA and modern disease risk suggests some immune genes may reduce allergy risk rather than increase it ...

A new genetic study shows that cultural diversity in the so-called Southern Cone—the roughly triangular southernmost part of ...

The findings suggest a sharp reduction in the local population followed by the arrival of entirely new groups from the south. The burial site itself spans the period from approximately 3200 to 2450 BC ...

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