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HUMANS HAVE never been immune from the pressures of natural selection. Throughout the history of the species circumstances have arisen to give individuals with certain beneficial mutations an ...

Mother Nature took charge at YETI Natural Selection Ski Alaska, steering the event through a week of twists and turns. What was originally intended to be a competition on the iconic big-mountain lines ...

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The number of redheads is growing due to natural selection, according to a groundbreaking new study. Natural selection has shaped modern human genomes far more than previously thought, a study from ...

Data from more than 15,000 ancient people reveal natural selection of hundreds of genes linked to immunity, skin tone, behaviour and other traits. The biggest ever study of ancient human DNA shows ...