Scientists have claimed in a new paper that humans are going through a significant evolutionary period right now. You might ...

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

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 ...

Not literally, of course. But similarly to an ant colony, two scientists say our collective culture—not genetics—has become ...

Humans were living in rainforests roughly 150,000 years ago, some 80,000 years earlier than was previously thought—and may have been an important center for early human evolution. This is the ...

Chimpanzees, along with bonobos, are humans' closest living relatives. In fact, you may have heard that humans and chimps ...

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

Researchers have dated the mysterious skull from Petralona Cave in Greece to 300,000 years ago and concluded that the fossil ...

The Trump Administration recently called out the Smithsonian Institution for pushing “one-sided, divisive political narratives,” leading GOP Sen. Jim Banks last week to introduce a bill prohibiting ...