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

Forget Survival Of The Fittest. Humans Conquered Our Planet By Sharing Ideas. In A Nutshell Humans spread across nearly every habitat on Earth in around 300,000 years, a feat that biology alone would ...

From epic poetry to game shows, from Stone Age axes to spaceflight, humans have the most complex cultures of any species on Earth. Since the time of Darwin, scientists have suspected that this culture ...

Humans really are everywhere. More than any other vertebrate species, we have managed to quickly spread across the planet and ...

A new study shows cultural evolution helped humans expand across Earth far faster than genetic change alone could achieve.

Discover the latest news, features and articles about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ...

An analysis of ancient and modern DNA suggests the extent of convergent evolution in different peoples around the world is ...

Human evolution may no longer be driven primarily by genetics, according to a new theory by researchers at the University of Maine which claims that cultural systems are now shaping the way humans ...

The evolutionary success of our species may have hinged on minute changes to our brain biochemistry after we diverged from the lineage leading to Neanderthals and Denisovans about half a million years ...

The DNA foundation model Evo 2 has been published in the journal Nature. Trained on the DNA of over 100,000 species across the entire tree of life, Evo 2 can identify patterns in gene sequences across ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may be the result of millions of years of evolution. Rapid neuronal evolution in humans is likely ASD’s genetic cause, new research suggests. Though autism can cause ...