For decades, scientists assumed that the first modern humans to arrive in Europe, around 45,000 years ago, quickly evolved ...

University of Ferrara researchers in Italy have examined how European skin, eye and hair pigmentation evolved over the past ...

Human evolution, her thesis goes ... regarding the exact nature of the evolutionary forces that affected human skin color. These arguments make the first six chapters a compelling read.

A recent DNA study challenges long-held beliefs about the evolution of skin color in ancient Europeans, revealing that the ...