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

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

This shift isn’t just about faster problem-solving; it’s changing what it means to be human. Culture is inherently collective ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi travels the world digging into the origin of Homo sapiens in a five-part BBC series ...

On Valentine’s Day in 2018, a team of scientists walked across a flat expanse in the badlands of northeastern Ethiopia, scanning the ground for fossils. An eagle-eyed field assistant, Omar Abdulla, ...

One hundred years ago, a substitute teacher in Dayton, Tenn., was charged with the crime of teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. His name was John Scopes. At the time, ...

Volcanic eruptions are excellent timekeepers because they happen very quickly, geologically speaking. As hot magma erupts, it ...