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

I arrived on a mission: I wanted to prove that Charles Darwin was wrong. Like so many other creationists, I believed that ...

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Exposed in 1953, the Piltdown Man forgery misled scientists for four decades. Charles Dawson’s fake fossils combined a ...

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

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

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

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

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

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift — driven not by genes, but by culture. Cultural practices — from farming ...

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