A new study reveals how mathematical models can explain the formation and evolution of human societies and kinship systems.

How clans form and evolve within human societies has been modeled using a simple computer model developed by a RIKEN researcher and a collaborator. This demonstration opens the way to modeling complex ...

Cultural evolution is the change over time of non-biological aspects of human society. The process is loosely analogous to biological evolution, although does not necessarily involve Darwinian ...

The modern world is replete with things that make our once-adaptive instincts go awry. For instance, humans evolved to live ...

This evolution may be less about survival ... "Part of this is due to the human history of migration and culture, which means people tend to live by and be exposed to people who are more similar ...

Innovation in Stone Tool Technology Involved Multiple Stages at the Time of Modern Human Dispersals Feb. 7, 2024 — A new study illuminates the cultural evolution that took place approximately ...

For most of human history, memes and genes evolved ... remains one of the leading ways of thinking about cultural evolution. And, of course, the theory is a meme itself.

Our species is defined by a long list of cultural and genetic traits that set us apart ... the changes occurred in our PAR2 region that helped define a major milestone in modern human evolution. The ...

There is already evidence that cultural sharing of knowledge and writing lightened ... Important as other species were to human evolution, interactions with other humans were even more formative. Now ...

Scientists suggest meat consumption was pivotal to humans' development of larger brains, but the transition probably didn't start with Australopithecus, according to a new study Margherita Bassi ...