When our distant ancestors first traded nomadic life for farming, villages, and permanent homes, you might assume that the ...

The Indigenous peoples of the Bolivian highlands are survivors. For thousands of years they have lived at altitudes of more than two miles, where oxygen is about 35 percent lower than at sea level.

New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...

Natural selection is the process by which some organisms in a population survive and reproduce, while others do not, based on their bodies and behaviour. It is one of the processes by which species ...

In this Spotlight, we ask whether modern humans are still evolving or whether we have stepped out of the path of natural selection. Share on Pinterest Does Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution still ...

A female pollinating wasp, Platyscapa awekei, which pollinates the Wonderboom fig, a famous fig tree in South Africa. Simon van Noort In his 1859 book, On the Origin of Species, British naturalist ...

Evolution is an ongoing process, although many don’t realize people are still evolving. It’s true that Homo sapiens look very different than Australopithecus afarensis, an early hominin that lived ...