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 ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may be the result of millions of years of evolution. Rapid neuronal evolution in humans is ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Denisovans were first discovered as another relation to modern humans in 2010—It turns out they might be our closest relative ...

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

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

How did humans become human? Understanding when, where and in what environmental conditions our early ancestors lived is ...