When our distant ancestors first traded nomadic life for farming, villages, and permanent homes, you might assume that the beastly forces of natural selection lost their ability to shape our species, ...

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

A massive study of ancient and modern DNA from thousands of West Eurasian people has identified nearly 500 genetic variants ...

It would be tempting to believe that human evolution has slowed since our ancestors left Africa 300,000 years ago. Yet a new ...

The story of Charles Darwin’s life. His theory of evolution changed the way we understood our place in the world.

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Human aging is not what natural selection failed to prevent. It is what happens when selection simply has nothing left to act on.

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 ...