Learn why some researchers say that our culture – not genetics – is driving our evolution and what that could mean for our future.

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

Until Homo floresiensis was discovered, scientists assumed that the evolution of the human lineage was defined by bigger and ...

A scaling law relates the expected number of mutants to the total population size of cells in a spatially constrained but ...

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

Autism-linked genes evolved rapidly in humans. They may have aided brain growth and language. A recent study published in Molecular Biology and Evolution by Oxford University Press suggests that the r ...

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

(THE CONVERSATION) From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony of glass and bright white structures. Despite being just ...

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

The study of early vertebrates provides an essential window into the evolutionary processes that shaped modern biodiversity. Fossil discoveries spanning the Silurian to Devonian periods reveal a ...

Scientists have developed a theoretical model that uncovers the dual role of polyploidy -- organisms carrying extra genome copies -- in evolution. Their findings reveal that polyploidy can stabilize ...

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