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Human Evolution May Be Undergoing a Major Shift Right in Front of Our Eyes

(Volodymyr Yakimchuk/Creatas Video+/Getty Images Plus) A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have ...
New Scientist

2025 was chock full of exciting discoveries in human evolution

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. If I tried to recap all the new fossils, new methods and ...
Forbes

Why Do Humans Have A Tailbone? An Evolutionary Biologist Explains Why We Never Lost It

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. The human body is full of evolutionary compromises. The loss of the tail may be one of the ...
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Humans in the Andes seem to have evolved a strange genetic ability

(Edsel Querini/iStock/Getty Images) Over thousands of years, humans living high in the Argentinian Andes have relied on ...
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If evolution is real, why are there still monkeys? Scientists reveal the surprising answer

When you learned about the history of human evolution in school, there's a good chance you were shown one all-too-familiar image. That picture probably showed a conga line of human-like ...
Forbes

A Biologist Explains Why Humans Lost Their Fur. Hint: We Evolved Something Else Instead

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Humans are the only primates that run nearly naked under the sun. Here’s how this ...
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Human sense of smell evolved with diets and lifestyle, genetic study suggests

How lifestyle shaped smell perception Deng and her team were curious about how olfactory receptor genes have evolved in humans. Previous studies have found that populations with different ...