In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to ...

Learn why some researchers say that our culture – not genetics – is driving our evolution and what that could mean for our future.

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

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

A new theory suggests that cultural systems dictated how human beings survived and not genetics, hinting at adaptability and ...

By creating mathematical models of memory engrams, scientists determined that having seven senses would maximize our mental ...

Scientists have claimed in a new paper that humans are going through a significant evolutionary period right now. You might ...

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

Until Homo floresiensis was discovered, scientists assumed that the evolution of the human lineage was defined by bigger and ...

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

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

The human gastrointestinal tract is in a constant state of flux; it hosts a diverse and dynamic community of microbes known as the gut microbiome, and is constantly exposed to things in the ...