Beneficial mutations happen quite frequently, but the world changes too fast for them to stick.

By analyzing the genetic material of thousands of ancient humans, researchers have mapped how natural selection influenced ...

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When Richard Dawkins’s first blockbuster book was published half a century ago, few genes had ever been sequenced or studied in detail. Yet the book’s gene-centred view of evolution still has much to ...

The story of Charles Darwin’s life. His theory of evolution changed the way we understood our place in the world.

Natural selection, the evolutionary process that guides which traits become more common in a population, has been acting on us for the past 3,000 years, right up to the modern day, new research ...

READER QUESTION: If humans don’t die out in a climate apocalypse or asteroid impact in the next 10,000 years, are we likely to evolve further into a more advanced species than what we are at the ...