Humans really do rule the world. We took over fast and far, more than any other wild vertebrates. We inhabit nearly every ...

(Volodymyr Yakimchuk/Creatas Video+/Getty Images Plus) A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have ...

A new study shows cultural evolution helped humans expand across Earth far faster than genetic change alone could achieve.

In a recent review published in the journal Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, researchers discussed the role of climatic shifts and vegetation changes in driving the evolution within the subfamily ...

TIME: Much of what you write about in the book involves the idea of “dispersal” as an evolutionary process that could ...

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. "Human evolution seems to be changing ...

Forget Survival Of The Fittest. Humans Conquered Our Planet By Sharing Ideas. In A Nutshell Humans spread across nearly every ...

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 ...

Humans appear to be set apart from much of the animal kingdom, even if we do say so ourselves. While we often credit our ...