In a cavernous concert hall, before an eager audience of thousands, Masatoshi Nei is experiencing a technical glitch. The biologist has just received Japan’s prestigious Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences, ...

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

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

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

While developing his theory of natural selection, Charles Darwin was horrified by a group of wasps that lay their eggs within ...

A new study explores how culture is overtaking genetics as the driving force in human evolution and shaping our future.

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

A new study examining stick and leaf insect species has found evidence of convergent evolution, with all of the insects evolving similar characteristics despite diverging long ago. The rest of this ...

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

From natural selection to the history of nature -- From the units of inheritance to the origin of species -- Multicellularity and the developmental code -- Life cycle evolution : life and death of the ...

Natural selection can reverse evolution that occurs through sexual selection and this can lead to better females, new research shows. The study - led by the University of Exeter and Okayama University ...