The Atlas blue butterfly, with a record-breaking 229 pairs of chromosomes, is helping scientists unravel mysteries of ...

A new study from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences sheds ...

Autism-linked genes evolved rapidly in humans. They may have aided brain growth and language. A recent study published in ...

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

Researchers led by Aleksey Maro from the University of California reported this month that each day the animals consume a dose equivalent to approximately one small bottle of beer for humans. In ...

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

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

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

Researchers discovered that certain human brain cells evolved unusually fast, altering autism-linked gene activity.

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 ...

Researchers from Harvard’s Department of Human Evolutionary Biology found that educated children perform better on psychological tests measuring executive functioning abilities, challenging the ...

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