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

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 ...

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

To Shakespeare’s Hamlet we humans are “the paragon of animals”. But recent advances in genetics are suggesting that humans are far from being evolution’s greatest achievement. For example, humans have ...

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

Nagpur: \"Genetics is no longer a side branch but a central part of medical practice,\" remarked Dr Shubha Phadke, one of ...

Human eye colour, a captivating feature, arises from melanin, iris structure, and genetics, creating diverse shades from ...

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 ...

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

The findings establish previously unrecognized connections between human genetics, gut fungi and chronic disease, broadening the paradigm of human-microbe interactions in the gut to include the ...