A new genetic study shows that cultural diversity in the so-called Southern Cone—the roughly triangular southernmost part of ...

The findings suggest a sharp reduction in the local population followed by the arrival of entirely new groups from the south. The burial site itself spans the period from approximately 3200 to 2450 BC ...

Human aging is not what natural selection failed to prevent. It is what happens when selection simply has nothing left to act ...

Photo: Oscar Pedersen Drone image and 3D model of the Los Tres Cerros 1 site in the Paraná river delta. A new genetic study ...

Neanderthals are also continuing their own journey through history, and the latest scientific study conducted at Stajnia Cave ...

For 40 years, scientists called this green snake by the wrong name. DNA just exposed the truth hiding in a Chinese forest.

The study was conducted by researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Germany, and the University of ...

A Harvard study indicates natural selection has favored red hair for millennia, suggesting redheads may become more common as ...

A new study finds that bacteria can actively block the transfer of beneficial genes to neighboring cells, using specialized ...

On 25 April 1953, Watson and Crick published an article, in the acclaimed journal “Nature” titled “Molecular structure of nucleic acids: A structure for deoxyribonucleic acid”. The one-page article ...

This marsupial carnivore is endangered, mainly because it tries to eat toxic cane toads. Some scientists think they can stave ...

A landmark Nature study analyzing nearly 16,000 ancient and modern genomes from West Eurasia reveals that natural selection ...