Something happened around 4,000 years ago in West Eurasia that made red-haired people more common.
The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...
The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries ...
Over the past 10,000 years, evolution in West Eurasia has been selecting for light skin, red hair and resistance to HIV and ...
Scientists who analysed nearly 16,000 ancient remains suggest red hair and fair skin is favoured for vitamin D production ...
Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA ...
Data from more than 15,000 ancient people reveal natural selection of hundreds of genes linked to immunity, skin tone, ...
For years, the story of recent human evolution looked relatively quiet. Scientists studying ancient human DNA had found only ...
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.
The domestication of dogs began approximately 30,000-50,000 years ago with Eurasian gray wolves, marking the first time any ...