Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may be the result of millions of years of evolution. Rapid neuronal evolution in humans is ...

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

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

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

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

New research suggests that the evolution of the human brain may explain why autism is more common in humans than in other ...

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

How did humans become human? Understanding when, where and in what environmental conditions our early ancestors lived is ...

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

Denisovans were first discovered as another relation to modern humans in 2010—It turns out they might be our closest relative ...

Fossilized teeth show that two different kinds of ancient human ancestors coexisted more than 2 million years ago. One of ...

Exposed in 1953, the Piltdown Man forgery misled scientists for four decades. Charles Dawson’s fake fossils combined a medieval human skull, an orangutan jaw, and chimpanzee teeth stained to look ...