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, ...

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

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

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

Scientists are re-examining whether genetic changes remain the primary catalyst of human evolution, or if another factor has become more influential.

Imagine how much better our parties would be! While our evolution into trans-human party machines may still be a million ...

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

Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi travels the world digging into the origin of Homo sapiens in a five-part BBC series ...

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

Though she works thousands of miles from home, Arizona State University research scientist Kaye Reed is used to 110-degree heat. For days at a time, Reed and her colleagues walk through Ethiopia's ...

In a Genomic Press Interview published today in Brain Medicine, Dr. Alex Tsompanidis highlights an exciting new idea that ...

Cat Bohannon's "Eve" is vaguely intimidating. Fine, more than a little intimidating. It's more than 600 pages, promising to cover 200 million years of human evolution. The young adult adaptation, just ...