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In the summer of 2000 scientists celebrated the near complete mapping of the human genome ... one of the leading ways of thinking about cultural evolution. And, of course, the theory is a meme ...

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An archaeological site in Germany suggests communal hunting and complex thinking emerged earlier in human evolution than once thought.

A special issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B takes a bold step toward redefining one of the most ...

New research has revealed an incredible discovery: modern humans carry 20% of their genetic material from a mysterious population that split from our ancestors 1.5 million years ago. This study ...

In short: social evolution is moving much faster than genetic evolution, and the mismatch between the two is where much of modern suffering ... it’s built to behave? Human beings are no different.

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