The picture of human evolution has changed repeatedly and dramatically over the past half century, shaped by waves of new ...

Human evolution, traditionally driven by natural selection, may have reached a point where technological and medical ...

In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an ...

Leveraging a unique statistical analysis and applying it to ancient DNA extracted from human skeletal remains, a team of ...

It started with a finger bone found in a cave in the Altai mountains in Siberia in the late 2000s. Thanks to advances in DNA ...

A new potential case of bird flu in a California child without known contact with infected animals is raising concerns about ...

The field of research focuses on the impacts of Global Change on water resource systems. Global Change encompasses ...

At the Climate Adaptation Center's fourth annual Florida Climate Conference, climate and medical experts spoke about how ...

The avian flu virus isolated from a hospitalized teenager in Vancouver has mutations in key areas that could help the virus ...

Our understanding of human ancestry has changed dramatically since the discovery of Lucy the ancient hominin 50 years ago.

“Certainly, this is one of the first times that we’ve really seen evidence of these sort of adaptation mutations ... allow it to attach more easily to human cells. “It’s caught the ...

Are you lactose intolerant? Many people are. In fact, the ability to digest lactose may be an example of adaptive evolution in the human lineage. Although the study of natural selection in humans ...