A massive study of ancient and modern DNA from thousands of West Eurasian people has identified nearly 500 genetic variants ...
A Harvard study indicates natural selection has favored red hair for millennia, suggesting redheads may become more common as ...
Human aging is not what natural selection failed to prevent. It is what happens when selection simply has nothing left to act ...
The whole world could soon be seeing red. Instead of being the punchline, redheads will have the last laugh, as a new study ...
For years, the story of recent human evolution looked relatively quiet. Scientists studying ancient human DNA had found only ...
The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...
A massive study of ancient genomes has revealed that natural selection acted on hundreds of human genes throughout recent ...
Another complication is that sustained genetic variation does not emerge exclusively as a result of natural selection.
When most people think about natural selection, they imagine individuals competing with one another: The fastest animal escapes predators, the strongest plant produces more seeds, and the most ...
"Survival of the fittest" is the catch phrase of evolution by natural selection. While natural selection favors the most fit organisms around, evolutionary biologists have long wondered whether this ...