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

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

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

An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like. Now it turns out they, not Neanderthals, might be our ...

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 ...

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

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

On remote islands of Papua New Guinea, people carry a story that ties us all back to our deepest roots. Although their ...

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

Micronutrients, minerals that are part of the human diet in small amounts, may have influenced human evolution more than ...

When speakers of different languages meet, their words, sounds and even grammatical structures mingle in surprising ways.