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 ...

Now some scientists claim in a new paper that culture has actually overtaken genetics as the leading force shaping human evolution, marking a major shift. Timothy Waring, an economist at the ...

A new study explores how culture is overtaking genetics as the driving force in human evolution and shaping our future.

Imagine how much better our parties would be! While our evolution into trans-human party machines may still be a million ...

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

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

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

Globally, autism affects about 1 in 100 children, according to the World Health Organization. In the U.S., the rate is closer to 1 in 31, or 3.2%. That’s far higher than what researchers observe in ...

A paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution finds that the relatively high rate of autism-spectrum disorders in humans is ...

Recent groundbreaking research into ape genomes has uncovered mysterious non-human DNA structures that challenge our ...

Little is known about the genetics of Anopheles funestus, one of the most prolific malaria-transmitting mosquitos in sub-Saharan Africa.