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

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

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

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

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

From one human to the next, our genomes are about 99.9% alike. As a result of evolution, the arrangement of genetic ...

Imagine if scientists could reach back through time and recover the genetic blueprints of species that vanished thousands of years ago, then use those ancient instructions to rebuild lost traits in ...

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

The genetic culprits responsible for the spread of multidrug resistance (MDR) in bacteria have been identified by new ...

Little is known about the genetics of Anopheles funestus, one of the most prolific malaria-transmitting mosquitos in sub-Saharan Africa.