For 74,000 years, one ancient killer quietly dictated where early humans could survive across Africa

Increasing evidence suggests that our species emerged through interactions between populations living in different parts of ...
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Humans are still evolving. Natural selection has favored genes linked to red hair and less male-pattern baldness, a study suggests

Many people are familiar with the concept of natural selection and “survival of the fittest.” While modern humans may look ...

A vast Indigenous American genome map exposes lost migrations, ancient ancestry and more than a million new variants

Research into human genomic diversity has a number of applications in biomedicine, evolution, and history. However, many ...