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 ...

A new study suggests culture is reshaping human evolution faster than DNA, redefining how our species adapts, survives, and ...

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 ...

Some cosmic events could have profoundly altered the lives of our ancient human relatives. Did Neanderthals go extinct, at ...

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

A new study may be about to rewrite a part of our early human history. It has long been thought that Homo habilis, often ...

Perhaps such a transition will be increasingly adaptive. Faced with growing ecological and social crises, the current ...

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