A Harvard-led study of nearly 16,000 ancient genomes from West Eurasia reveals that natural selection has been far more active in the past 10,000 years than previously believed. Researchers identified ...

How do our genes determine our appearance and our susceptibility to disease? This question is central to biomedical research, ...

Human evolution has long been tied to growing brain size, and new research suggests prenatal hormones may have played a surprising role. By studying the relative lengths of index and ring fingers — a ...