Scientists who analysed nearly 16,000 ancient remains suggest red hair and fair skin is favoured for vitamin D production People with red hair who have put up with teasing or “fiery” stereotypes may ...

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 ...

Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA indicates that natural selection continued to shape hundreds of genes. By Carl ...

Prince Harry bonds with a fellow red head on Australia trip New technology detected directional selection in ancient DNA time-series data and a consistent trend in how frequent alleles became over ...

Scientist believe ‘red hair genes’ may have grown more common because it was ‘beneficial 4,000 years ago’ Cameron Henderson is a versatile journalist currently serving as Science Correspondent for The ...