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

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

Human evolution has often been depicted as a process of adaptation, where natural selection and genetic changes drive species ...

A new study explores how culture is overtaking genetics as the driving force in human evolution and shaping our future.

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

ASTANA – High school textbooks may frame evolution as a thing of the past, but it is very much alive, said Dr. Arkhat ...

How do cells know what they should become as the body develops? Biological development depends crucially on spatial patterns: ...

Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make ...

The main carrier for the most widespread Plasmodium species across Africa is the mosquito Anopheles gambiae. Because of this, the insect has been of intense interest to researchers to figure out a way ...

Now some scientists claim in a new paper that culture has actually overtaken genetics as the leading force shaping human evolution, marking a major shift. Timothy Waring, an economist at the ...

The theory of evolution by natural selection was first formulated in Darwin’s book “On the Origin of Species” in 1859. It describes how organisms change over time as a result of changes in heritable ...

What makes every person unique? Part of the answer is in our genes.