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

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

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

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

Researchers discovered that certain human brain cells evolved unusually fast, altering autism-linked gene activity.

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

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

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

Denisovans were first discovered as another relation to modern humans in 2010—It turns out they might be our closest relative ...

Imagine how much better our parties would be! While our evolution into trans-human party machines may still be a million ...

Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the ...

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 ...