Unlike resilience, cognitive adaptivity focuses on continuous behavioral learning. It combines machine learning, human ...

Shamahi charts humanity's evolutionary odyssey. We sat down with her to discuss the path of our species out of Africa to ...

Researchers uncover how gut bacteria use DGRs to adapt and survive, revealing new ways our microbiome could impact lifelong ...

What makes the human brain different from that of other primates has long been a question. A new study suggests that the ...

A new study concludes that the speed at which the human brain evolved may help explain why our species experiences autism.

Stanford study finds rapid brain cell evolution boosted human cognition but lowered autism gene activity, raising ...

Scientists found that the Turkana people of northern Kenya evolved special genes within 5,000-8,000 years to help them ...

New research along Turkey’s Ayvalık coast reveals a once-submerged land bridge that may have helped early humans cross from ...

A recent study dramatically pushes back the date for the emergence of our species, though some researchers call for further ...

Researchers digitally reconstructed a crushed skull and concluded our species is 1 million years old, igniting a debate over ...

The same regulatory landscape which influences the development of fingers is present in fish, despite their distinct lack of digits. When researchers used CRISPR (a common gene editing tool) to fiddle ...

At a time when biodiversity is under severe pressure from human activities, understanding how evolution works is more ...