Are humans evolving more through culture than DNA? A new study explores how medicine, technology, and institutions may guide ...

There’s a problem with that “March of Progress” picture that’s so often used to illustrate our species’ development: it ends. Human evolution, the image implies, began in apehood and finishes here, ...

Researchers discovered that certain human brain cells evolved unusually fast, altering autism-linked gene activity.

Human evolution has often been depicted as a process of adaptation, where natural selection and genetic changes drive species ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary ...

A new study suggests culture is reshaping human evolution faster than DNA, redefining how our species adapts, survives, and ...

New research suggests that the evolution of the human brain may explain why autism is more common in humans than in other ...

A new study explores how culture is overtaking genetics as the driving force in human evolution and shaping our future.

Perhaps such a transition will be increasingly adaptive. Faced with growing ecological and social crises, the current ...

But Beekman, along with a growing number of scholars, many of them women, emphasizes familial care in our understanding of ...

How did humans become human? Understanding when, where and in what environmental conditions our early ancestors lived is ...

Shamahi charts humanity's evolutionary odyssey. We sat down with her to discuss the path of our species out of Africa to ...