A new theory suggests that cultural systems dictated how human beings survived and not genetics, hinting at adaptability and ...

There’s a problem with that “March of Progress” picture that’s so often used to illustrate our species’ development: it ends. Human evolution, the image implies, began in apehood and finishes here, ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary ...

In a recent op-ed in PNAS, SFI External Professor Michael Hochberg and co-author Paul Rainey explore whether deepening ...

Scientists have claimed in a new paper that humans are going through a significant evolutionary period right now. You might ...

An international collaboration between four senior scientists from Mainz, Valencia, Madrid, and Zurich has published groundbreaking research in the journal PNAS, shedding light on the most significant ...

Human evolution has often been depicted as a process of adaptation, where natural selection and genetic changes drive species ...

General introduction / Gerard A.J.M. Jagers op Akkerhuis -- Part I. The operator theory and its applications. 2. Introducing the operator theory / Gerard A.J.M. Jagers op Akkerhuis, Hendrik Pieter ...

Phenotypic variation is pervasive in nature: species differ, individuals within species differ, and individuals themselves even differ over time. Variation generates novel ways of interacting with the ...

Researchers reveal new insights into the complex evolutionary history behind the distinctive upright posture of modern placental and marsupial mammals, showing the transition was surprisingly complex ...