There’s more history in your blood types than you think, and it didn’t begin with humans. Here’s what we know about them, ...

A study finds an increase in redheads over 10,000 years due to natural selection, highlighting ongoing human evolution and ...

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

A massive study of ancient DNA from nearly 16,000 people across more than 10,000 years in West Eurasia reveals that natural ...

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

The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries ...

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

Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA ...

Something happened around 4,000 years ago in West Eurasia that made red-haired people more common.

A new study finds natural selection has reshaped hundreds of human genes in the past 10,000 years, driven by farming, disease ...

For years, the story of recent human evolution looked relatively quiet. Scientists studying ancient human DNA had found only ...