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

There’s a problem with that “March of Progress” picture that’s so often used to illustrate our species’ development: it ends. Human evolution, the image implies, began in apehood and finishes here, ...

Shamahi charts humanity's evolutionary odyssey. We sat down with her to discuss the path of our species out of Africa to ...

Some cosmic events could have profoundly altered the lives of our ancient human relatives. Did Neanderthals go extinct, at ...

An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like. Now it turns out they, not Neanderthals, might be our ...

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

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

New research suggests that the evolution of the human brain may explain why autism is more common in humans than in other species.

How did humans become human? Understanding when, where and in what environmental conditions our early ancestors lived is ...

F or the past century and a half, the concept of evolution has primarily been wielded by those describing change of a purely biological nature. But according to ecologist Mark Vellend, this sort of ...