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

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

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

F or the past century and a half, the concept of evolution has primarily been wielded by those describing change of a purely biological nature. But according to ecologist Mark Vellend, this sort of ...

High school textbooks may frame evolution as a thing of the past, but it is very much alive, said Dr. Arkhat Abzhanov, a ...

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

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