A new genomic study reveals how human populations adapted, survived, and diversified in the Himalayas, one of the most ...

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The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has been asked to hear a challenge to the UK’s climate adaptation plans, which ...

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About 70,000 years ago in Africa, humans expanded into more extreme environments, a new study finds, setting the stage for our global migration.

Mounting evidence from genome studies indicates that, contrary to received wisdom, our species has undergone profound biological adaptation in its recent evolutionary past ...

Scientists in China have found a new coronavirus in bats that could possibly infect humans, but the risk remains low for now.

Aldenderfer realized he had stumbled into a niche of untapped archaeological research on early human adaptation to high-elevation environments. Working at such heights can be excruciating.

The picture of human evolution has changed repeatedly and dramatically over the past half century, shaped by waves of new fossil discovery, technology, and scientific techniques.