Explore human population evolution through genetics, natural selection, and interbreeding. How mutations shape our future?

How we do research matters just as much as what we do. Understanding something as complex as human evolution in Africa requires many different people with different perspectives to get the story ...

READER QUESTION: If humans don’t die out in a climate apocalypse or asteroid impact in the next 10,000 years, are we likely to evolve further into a more advanced species than what we are at the ...

The future of human evolution in space will be driven by challenges both similar — and different — to those that have guided our development for countless generations. Since our species, Homo ...

The past of human evolution is more and more coming to light as scientists uncover a trove of fossils and genetic knowledge. But where might the future of human evolution go?

According to Darwin, the theory of evolution explains how species come to be, and natural selection is the process that drives it.

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as "junk" and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study ...