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 ...

The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries in evolution. It may not be that simple.

Scientists have uncovered surprising clues hidden deep in human DNA, and the findings are forcing experts to rethink a ...

There is something almost comforting about the old, schoolbook version of human origins. It had a single ancestral population ...