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

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

Not literally, of course. But similarly to an ant colony, two scientists say our collective culture—not genetics—has become ...

Researchers have recently uncovered a series of artifacts that suggest the existence of pre-human engineers, challenging our understanding of early human evolution. These findings, dispersed globally, ...

Researchers have found a link between long thumbs and big brains, suggesting the two features evolved together ...

Micronutrients, minerals that are part of the human diet in small amounts, may have influenced human evolution more than ...

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

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

Scientists find genetic mutation, millions of years ago. Oct. 12, 2011 — -- About three million years ago human predecessors embarked on a new course that would forever alter the evolution of our ...

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