Bronze Age natural selection accelerated human evolution, challenging long-held beliefs about genetic adaptation.

Bronze Age acceleration: Ancient DNA analysis shows human evolution sped up dramatically during the Bronze Age, challenging earlier theories of evolutionary dormancy. Migration’s genetic impact: Large ...

Prehistoric humans in Africa may have avoided areas infested with malaria-spreading mosquitoes, a new study suggests.

Working in the Horn of Africa, researchers have uncovered evidence showing how early modern humans survived in the wake of the eruption of Toba, one of the largest supervolcanoes in history, some ...

A new study combining genetic, palaeoecological, and archaeological evidence has unveiled the Persian Plateau as a pivotal geographic location serving as a hub for Homo sapiens during the early stages ...

Many people today simply assume that our evolution has quietly ended with the development of the modern human. It's easy to think that medicine, science, and modern living have made us "perfect" or ...

New genetic research is rewriting the human origin story, showing that our species likely evolved from multiple interconnected populations across Africa rather than a single ancestral group. Fossils, ...

In 1758, Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus gave humans a scientific name: Homo sapiens, which means "wise human" in Latin. Although Linnaeus grouped humans with other apes, it was English biologist ...