A new study shows the virus could have doubled the frequency of genetic variants in a South African province if effective ...

Prehistoric humans in Africa may have avoided areas infested with malaria-spreading mosquitoes, a new study suggests.

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A reconstruction of the crushed skull labelled Yunxian 2, which has features that are closer to species thought to have existed ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

From epic poetry to game shows, from Stone Age axes to spaceflight, humans have the most complex cultures of any species on Earth. Since the time of Darwin, scientists have suspected that this culture ...

The story of human evolution is far from a straight line — it’s a complex web of species, adaptations, and interconnections.

Ten fossil teeth belong to new Australopithecus species Found in Afar Region, they are 2.65 million years old This species coexisted with an early Homo species Fossils underscore complex nature of ...

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.

A wave of new genetic research is transforming our understanding of human evolution, revealing that Homo sapiens likely arose from multiple interconnected populations in Africa rather than a single ...

Learn more about new research that analyzed 16,000 ancient genomes and discovered that natural selection hasn’t slowed down.

Angela Pelster is well-recognized in the literary community for her work. On April 14, she published her collection of essays ...