Natural selection is accelerating, massive DNA study finds

For years, the story of recent human evolution looked relatively quiet. Scientists studying ancient human DNA had found only ...

'Human evolution didn't slow down; we were just missing the signal': Large DNA study reveals natural selection led to more redheads and less male-pattern baldness

Over the past 10,000 years, evolution in West Eurasia has been selecting for light skin, red hair and resistance to HIV and ...
Harvard Medical School

Massive Ancient-DNA Study Reveals Natural Selection Has Accelerated in Recent Human Evolution

The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...
IFLScience

Natural Selection Shaped Hundreds More Human Genes Than We Thought, Massive Ancient DNA Study Finds

Scientists previously thought only a handful of genes showed signs of selection in recent human evolution, but previous ...
IFLScience

Does Cosmological Natural Selection Explain Why The Universe Seems Fine-Tuned For Life?

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Nature Is Still Molding Human Genes, Study Finds

Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA ...
EurekAlert!

Natural selection operates on multiple levels, comprehensive review of scientific studies shows

The common view of natural selection is based solely on the individual: A trait allows an organism to out-compete its rivals and is thus passed down to its offspring. To suggest otherwise can provoke ...
Psychology Today

Why Culture Doesn't Evolve Through Natural Selection

For well over a century, Darwin’s theory of natural selection has served as biology’s grand unifying framework, explaining how species adapt and evolve through the differential replication of randomly ...