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

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.

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

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

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

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

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, ...

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

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

Fossilized teeth show that two different kinds of ancient human ancestors coexisted more than 2 million years ago. One of ...