For more than a century, scientists have sought to reconstruct human evolution using diverse lines of evidence, including ...

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Researchers have put forth a theory that humans are no longer subject to natural selection for evolution, but instead that ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how human-specific DNA changes shaped human evolution. It's just over a decade since ...

A new landmark study has uncovered evidence that challenges the long-held beliefs about human evolution.

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NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...