Although we humans have changed our environment in many ways during the past few thousand years, we are still changed by ...

Human Evolution has come pretty far during our time on Earth. But, do you ever wonder, what humans could evolve to look like 100, 200, or 2,000 years from now? How might we be different? Join Hank and ...

The advent of artificial intelligence might be just the latest stage in a guiding biological process that has produced ever more complex, mutually dependent organisms over the history of life.

In Nepal’s Upper Mustang, near the southern edge of the Tibetan Plateau, life unfolds in some of the thinnest air on Earth.

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift — driven not by genes, but by culture. In a paper published in the Oxford ...

In a Genomic Press Interview published today in Brain Medicine, Dr. Alex Tsompanidis highlights an exciting new idea that positions the placenta at the center of human neurodevelopment and evolution, ...

Researchers discovered that autism’s prevalence may be linked to human brain evolution. Specific neurons in the outer brain evolved rapidly, and autism-linked genes changed under natural selection.

"Industrialization has rapidly transformed the world around us—faster than our bodies can adapt,” an evolutionary ...

A paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution finds that the relatively high rate of autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in the past. The paper is titled "A general ...