Mounting evidence from genome studies indicates that, contrary to received wisdom, our species has undergone profound ...

Now researchers are learning that they have also evolved another remarkable genetic adaptation since their ancestors first ...

Investigating the signatures of natural selection can help elucidate the evolutionary adaptations that have allowed humans to withstand some of our most complex and challenging selective agents.

A vast genetic reservoir of influenza A strains exists in their natural avian hosts ... for efficient transmission in humans over the past century. Although adaptation for human transmission ...

researchers can identify signatures of natural selection in the human genome, and ultimately determine its role in human adaptation and disease. Low-cost DNA sequencing has provided researchers ...

Evidence Of Very Recent Human Adaptation: Up To 10 Percent Of Human Genome May Have Changed. ScienceDaily . Retrieved April 28, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2007 / 07 / 070711134400.htm ...

Results are in from a study led by Dr. Juzhi Hou, Dr. Fahu Chen, and Dr. Kejia Ji (Group of Alpine Paleoecology and Human Adaptation (ALPHA), State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System ...

Leveraging a unique statistical analysis and applying it to ancient DNA extracted from human skeletal ... to uncover traces ...

Here's How Climate adaptation includes ... through the process of natural selection. Rick Potts, a paleoanthropologist and director of the Smithsonian Institute’s Human Origins Program ...

Leveraging a unique statistical analysis and applying it to ancient DNA extracted from human skeletal ... to uncover traces of natural selection -- signs of genetic adaptation to environmental ...