The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...
When humans started farming around 10,000 years ago, they reshaped their landscapes, diets, and social structures. A common ...
For years, the story of recent human evolution looked relatively quiet. Scientists studying ancient human DNA had found only ...
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 ...
A new study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison provides the first empirical evidence connecting the chromosomal location of genes to natural selection, indicating the arrangement of ...
Antibiotic resistance, when infection-causing bacteria evolve so they are no longer affected by typical antibiotics, is a global concern. New research has mapped the evolution and process of natural ...
Antibiotic resistance, when infection-causing bacteria evolve so they are no longer affected by typical antibiotics, is a global concern. New research at the University of Tokyo has mapped the ...