A new Yale-led study provides one of the most detailed and comprehensive analyses to date of genetic variation in human ...

A review article now published in Nature Reviews Genetics brings together evolutionary theory, comparative genomics and large ...

It is generally accepted by archaeologists that modern humans originated in Africa and dispersed worldwide, while other ...

Genes make us who we are—but are they shaped by chance, natural selection, or something else?

The evolutionary success of our species may have hinged on minute changes to our brain biochemistry after we diverged from the lineage leading to Neanderthals and Denisovans about half a million years ...

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 ...

Human brain cell evolution may be linked to autism, neurodiversity, according to a new study. Image credit: Lauren Lee/Stocksy Although we humans like to think of ourselves as the pinnacle of ...

A just-published article in the journal Nature—“Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasia,” (Akbari et al, 15 April 2026)—describes how the development of agriculture in ...