A reader emailed me to ask what I thought would be a good way to better understand some of the more technical posts I put up. First, two course notes which I've found useful as personal references: - ...

Evolutionary ideas have been around a long time, at least since the Greeks, and likely longer. I accept the arguments of researchers who suggest that humans are predisposed to Creationist thinking; ...

Genetic researcher Nathan Clark spoke about research his team at the University of Pittsburgh conducted on evolutionary genetics. The seminars are hosted weekly by the University of Wisconsin Genetics ...

A groundbreaking study of a 7,100-year-old skeleton found in Yunnan, China, has revealed a "ghost" human lineage previously known only through genetic inference. The woman, named Xingyi_EN, belonged ...

The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Saturday August 9 2008 Some confusion has arisen over our account of Neanderthals, which said at one point ...

Modern medicine’s ability to keep us alive makes it tempting to think human evolution may have stopped. Better healthcare disrupts a key driving force of evolution by keeping some people alive longer, ...

Richard Lewontin, giant of evolutionary biology whose research transformed understanding of genetic variation between populations – obituary He showed that the majority of genetic variation in humans ...