A new theory suggests that cultural systems dictated how human beings survived and not genetics, hinting at adaptability and ...

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

Learn why some researchers say that our culture – not genetics – is driving our evolution and what that could mean for our future.

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

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 ...

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

Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the ...

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

Learn how a landmass in the Aegean sea might have helped humans move from Anatolia into Europe from the east.

The National Museum of Natural History is among the first eight Smithsonian sites the Trump administration announced it will review.