Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may be the result of millions of years of evolution. Rapid neuronal evolution in humans is ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

A paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution finds that the relatively high rate of autism-spectrum disorders in humans is ...

Now some scientists claim in a new paper that culture has actually overtaken genetics as the leading force shaping human evolution, marking a major shift. Timothy Waring, an economist at the ...

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

Denisovans were first discovered as another relation to modern humans in 2010—It turns out they might be our closest relative ...