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

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

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

Scientists are re-examining whether genetic changes remain the primary catalyst of human evolution, or if another factor has become more influential.

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

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

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

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

In a Genomic Press Interview published today in Brain Medicine, Dr. Alex Tsompanidis highlights an exciting new idea that ...

Ray Kurzweil, computer scientist, inventor and futurist, sees A.I. as the next step in human evolution. Merging with ...

The Indigenous peoples of the Bolivian highlands are survivors. For thousands of years they have lived at altitudes of more than two miles, where oxygen is about 35 percent lower than at sea level.