Mounting evidence from genome studies indicates that, contrary to received wisdom, our species has undergone profound ...

Many people hold the view that evolution in modern humans has come to a halt. But while modern medicine and technologies have changed the environment in which evolution operates, many scientists ...

Modern humans were essentially like waves crashing on a beach, slowly but steadily eroding the beach away.” With this vivid ...

Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate.

Now researchers are learning that they have also evolved another remarkable genetic adaptation since their ancestors first ...

Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate. Researchers have identified a genetic variant that contributed to the ...

When we think of human evolution, our minds wander back to the millions of years it took natural selection to produce modern-day humans. Recent research suggests that, despite modern technology ...

Modern humans descended from not one ... may have played a crucial role in human evolution," said Cousins. The study also found that genes inherited from the second population were often located ...

Research conducted at the Department of Biology, University of Padova, has identified critical genomic milestones in the evolution of ... development of current modern human traits.

Neanderthal populations suffered a single late genetic bottleneck, refuting long-held theories about their diversity.

and others where both modern and archaic humans differed from non-human primates. "We used an interdisciplinary approach to understand the evolution of hominid prosociality through the lens of the ...