Humans possess an extraordinary capacity for cultural production, from the arts and
language to science and technology. How did the human mind—and the uniquely human …

Hominin reliance on Oldowan stone tools—which appear from 2.5 mya and are believed to
have been socially transmitted—has been hypothesized to have led to the evolution of …

When cardiovascular diseases are viewed from an evolutionary biology perspective, a
heightened thrifty and an inflammatory design could be their mechanisms. Human ancestors …

Here, we discuss potential explanations for the higher prevalence of hypertriglyceridemia in
populations with an Amerindian background. Although environmental factors are the …

When humans moved from Asia toward the Americas over 18,000 y ago and eventually
peopled the New World they encountered a new environment with extreme climate …

Recent progress in the phylogenetic resolution of the Y-chromosome phylogeny permits the
male demographic dynamics and migratory events that occurred in Central and Southern …

The cognitive niche and the cultural niche are two competing theories of human evolution.
One point over which they disagree is the importance of gene-culture interactions. Here, I …

Diet-related adaptive gene (DRAG) polymorphisms identified in specific populations are
associated with chronic disorders in carriers of the adaptive alleles due to changes in dietary …

Ecological conditions in the Amazon rainforests are historically favorable for the
transmission of numerous tropical diseases, especially vector-borne diseases. The high …

It has been proposed that the functional ACTN3* R577X polymorphism might have evolved
due to selection in Eurasian human populations. To test this possibility we surveyed all …