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Long before humans spread across the globe, a deadly disease may have quietly shaped where our ancestors lived—and even how we evolved. New research reveals that malaria didn’t just threaten early ...

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Prehistoric humans in Africa may have avoided areas infested with malaria-spreading mosquitoes, a new study suggests.

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

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Some of the smallest organisms might have influenced our own evolutionary path. A new study has found that the distribution ...

New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...

A Harvard-led study of nearly 16,000 ancient genomes from West Eurasia reveals that natural selection has been far more active in the past 10,000 years than previously believed. Researchers identified ...

A new study shows the virus could have doubled the frequency of genetic variants in a South African province if effective ...