In natural populations, the mechanisms of evolution do not act in isolation. This is crucially important to conservation geneticists, who grapple with the implications of these evolutionary processes ...
Bronze Age natural selection accelerated human evolution, challenging long-held beliefs about genetic adaptation.
Humans are still evolving, and Tatum Simonson, PhD, founder and co-director of the Center for Physiological Genomics of Low Oxygen at University of California School of Medicine, plans to use ...
Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA indicates that natural selection continued to shape hundreds of genes. By Carl ...
Ancient DNA power: Harvard-led research on nearly 16,000 ancient genomes shows intensified natural selection over the past 10,000 years, reshaping hundreds of human genes. Rare variant advances: New ...