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

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

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

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 ...

In what is now Shandong, eastern China, researchers have discovered one of the oldest matrilineal societies known to science, ...

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 ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

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

Autism-linked genes evolved rapidly in humans. They may have aided brain growth and language. A recent study published in Molecular Biology and Evolution by Oxford University Press suggests that the r ...