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 ...

Small plastic or metal bits at the end of shoelaces, known as aglets, prevent laces from unraveling and protect them from ...

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

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 ...

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

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

When a woman becomes pregnant, the outcome of that pregnancy depends on many things — including a crucial event that happened ...

When speakers of different languages meet, their words, sounds and even grammatical structures mingle in surprising ways.

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 ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may be the result of millions of years of evolution. Rapid neuronal evolution in humans is ...