Humans really do rule the world. We took over fast and far, more than any other wild vertebrates. We inhabit nearly every ...

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TIME: Much of what you write about in the book involves the idea of “dispersal” as an evolutionary process that could ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift — driven not by genes, but by culture. In a paper published in the Oxford ...

Many people today simply assume that our evolution has quietly ended with the development of the modern human. It's easy to think that medicine, science, and modern living have made us "perfect" or ...

What will humans look like thousands of years from now? Evolution, science, and artificial intelligence could completely ...

Human beings have been at the center of ecological change on Earth for thousands of years. But as history shows, no species ...

Share on Pinterest Human brain cell evolution may be linked to autism, neurodiversity, according to a new study. Image credit: Lauren Lee/Stocksy A new study concludes that the speed at which the ...