A new study of a Neanderthal toddler reveals that our closest evolutionary relatives' growth patterns differed from those of ...

A new study of a Neanderthal toddler reveals that our closest evolutionary relatives' growth patterns differed from those of ...

New 3D analysis of a German skull clears up decades of confusion, placing this human firmly in the modern family tree.

The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...

Many people today simply assume that our evolution has quietly ended with the development of the modern human. It's easy to think that medicine, science, and modern living have made us "perfect" or ...

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.

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

A new paper by evolutionary anthropologists Colin Shaw (University of Zurich) and Daniel Longman (Loughborough University) argues that modern life has outpaced human evolution. The study suggests that ...

Not every modern human has the same set of Neanderthal DNA, however; different people will, by chance, have inherited different fragments. But there are also some areas, termed “Neanderthal deserts,” ...