As Earth approaches warmer levels experienced earlier in its geologic history, it may be bad news for human survival.

For the first time in humans, researchers have discovered a large chromosomal rearrangement that bears the mark of natural selection, they report in the February issue of Nature Genetics. The ...

Today, with access to heretofore unprecedented data sets for the study of human genetic variation, researchers can exploit the genetic signatures of natural selection using novel analytical methods.

Many people are. In fact, the ability to digest lactose may be an example of adaptive evolution in the human lineage. Although the study of natural selection in humans is still in an early stage ...

Beall has been studying the human response to hypoxic living conditions for years. In research published in October 2024, she and her team unveiled some of the specific adaptations in Tibetan ...

Much of what we think we know about human evolution has largely been attributed to natural selection – namely that species evolve by adapting to their environments. But Lauren Schroeder, a ...

Through natural selection, different types of eyes have emerged in evolutionary history -- and the human eye isn't even the best one, from some standpoints. Because blood vessels run across the ...

Intelligent male mosquitofish mate more, suggesting intelligence and brainpower evolved partly for reproduction, not just ...

To look for disease-driven natural selection, Hünemeier and colleagues analyzed genome data from 118 individuals belonging to 19 Indigenous groups throughout the Amazon stored in the Human Genome ...

head of the Smithsonian’s Human Origins Program. “We are the last two-legged creature standing out of our evolutionary tree. We’re very, very adaptable.” It’s natural selection in a ...