When humans started farming around 10,000 years ago, they reshaped their landscapes, diets, and social structures. A common ...

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

The idea behind this claim is that once humans achieved large enough brains and developed sophisticated cultures, cultural ...

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

Scientists previously thought only a handful of genes showed signs of selection in recent human evolution, but previous ...

Ultima Genomics, a developer of an innovative, ultra-high throughput sequencing architecture today announced key milestones for its ppmSeq® technology with a growing body of evidence from data ...

There’s a theory that many of us have an “inner Neanderthal.” The idea is that Homo sapiens and a cousin species once bred, ...

“Rather than being trapped in the present and studying the scars left by selection on the genomes of descendants, ancient DNA ...

Photosynthetic bacteria helped shape planet Earth. Among them are cyanobacteria that produced the oxygen in the atmosphere ...

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

Scientists who analysed nearly 16,000 ancient remains suggest red hair and fair skin is favoured for vitamin D production ...

The human genome of West Eurasia has been far more affected by natural selection in the last 10,000 years than previously ...