The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...
Over the past 10,000 years, evolution in West Eurasia has been selecting for light skin, red hair and resistance to HIV and ...
Over the past 10,000 years, evolution in West Eurasia has selected for light skin, red hair and resistance to HIV in humans, ...
Learn more about new research that analyzed 16,000 ancient genomes and discovered that natural selection hasn’t slowed down.
Another complication is that sustained genetic variation does not emerge exclusively as a result of natural selection.
Data from more than 15,000 ancient people reveal natural selection of hundreds of genes linked to immunity, skin tone, ...
Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA ...