From a brain-inspired vision chip to an ice core time machine, these were the most important breakthroughs last year, ...

Short snouts and a flat profile -- within a span of 100 years, humans have significantly changed the shape of the skulls of German domestic pigs. This is likely down to new breeding practices ...

The findings demonstrate how strongly humans can influence the evolution of animals. "Charles Darwin assumed that long periods of time—millions of years—are required for major changes to take ...

Researchers review the ever-growing list of human viruses, examining their diversity, transmission pathways, and the urgent ...

This phenomenon demonstrates that human evolution is still ongoing. A new study has found that for the past 10,000 years, populations on the Tibetan Plateau have developed particular adaptations ...

Human genetic diversity ... into future estimates of evolution and selection, and into statistical genetics methods. Moreover, how recombination affects human diseases and infertility and how ...

People on the Tibetan Plateau have developed unique physiological traits over 10,000 years to thrive in low-oxygen conditions, preventing hypoxia. A study showed that intermediate hemoglobin ...

Homo erectus was able to adapt to and survive in desert-like environments at least 1.2 million years ago, according to a paper published in Communications Earth & Environment. The findings suggest ...

“That is what it means to be human—to extend who we are.” Clearly Harbisson’s antenna is merely a beginning. But are we on the way to redefining how we evolve? Does evolution now mean not ...