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

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

Evidence is mounting that the evolution of our species is more convoluted than we imagined — more like a braided stream than a branching tree. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

An international team of researchers has presented this week the analysis of a fossil discovered in Bulgaria 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 ...

Most people know only two things about the appendix: You don’t need it – and if it bursts, you need surgery fast. That basic ...