Human aging is not what natural selection failed to prevent. It is what happens when selection simply has nothing left to act ...

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

“Can we go to another gear as a team?” Ducks head coach Melyssa Lombardi said after Oregon softball’s win over Iowa. “I think this series... First cycle in program history keys No. 18 Oregon ...

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

For decades, the dominant theory in human evolution suggested that modern humans descended from a single ancestral lineage in Africa. However, groundbreaking new research from the University of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Genetic information from the "Dragon Man" skull has linked the fossil, found in China, to the Denisovans. - Hebei GEO University ...

A lost chapter in human evolution has been discovered among a collection of teeth which dates back 2.8 million years. Researchers from Arizona State University announced that they have found a ...

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A skull fragment discovered over fifty years ago on the banks of the Elbe River in Germany has finally yielded its secrets. Long considered by some researchers to be a rare Neanderthal-modern human ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift — driven not by genes, but by culture. In a paper published in the Oxford ...