A scaling law relates the expected number of mutants to the total population size of cells in a spatially constrained but ...

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

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

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

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

How do cells know what they should become as the body develops? Biological development depends crucially on spatial patterns: ...

"This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature"--Verso of title page. Outgrowth of and selected papers presented at the 19th Evolutionary Biology Meeting, held in September 2015, in Marseille, ...

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

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