Are you lactose intolerant? 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 ...

To reconstruct the environmental conditions during the time of Homo erectus, the research team used advanced modeling ...

While malaria is the best-understood example of an infectious disease that has driven human evolution ... can help elucidate the evolutionary adaptations that have allowed humans to withstand ...

This reveals a complex history of interbreeding events that impacted human evolution ... genetic adaptations that Denisovans had developed to survive in harsh environments. For example, the ...