When COVID-19 lockdowns emptied city streets, urban environments changed almost overnight. New research suggests that Los ...
This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...
A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published ...
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 ...
For more than a century, scientists have treated the brain as the undisputed command center of human evolution, with the rest ...