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

Chimpanzees, along with bonobos, are humans' closest living relatives. In fact, you may have heard that humans and chimps ...

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

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 ...

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

Micronutrients, minerals that are part of the human diet in small amounts, may have influenced human evolution more than ...

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

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...