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

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

Genetics may no longer be the driving force of human evolution, a study by researchers from the University of Maine suggests.

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On the centennial anniversary of “The Origin of Species” in 1959, geneticist Hermann Joseph Muller warned, “One hundred years without Darwin have been enough.” It has been 53 years since Muller’s ...

While developing his theory of natural selection, Charles Darwin was horrified by a group of wasps that lay their eggs within ...

Over the past 500 million years, nearly all evolutionary changes in octopuses and squids occurred in rapid bursts during the emergence of new species, according to research from the University of ...

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It made for great oratory between eminent rivals, and it put the debate over teaching evolution on front pages across the country. But one thing the Scopes "monkey trial" of 1925 did not do was settle ...

When Darwin proposed his theory that asserted that humans share a common ancestry with other animals through an evolutionary process, a common rebuttal claimed that there needed to be a creature who ...