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 ...

Human evolution is far from a relic of the past, as a new study in Behavior Genetics demonstrates. By analyzing data from ...

The prehistoric human skull found in the Petralona Cave in Northern Greece challenges the Out of Africa theory of the origin of Homo sapiens ...

A recent study published in the journal Human Nature provides evidence that romantic love is highly valued worldwide when ...

Plant domestication, at both the landscape and population levels, is a fundamental part of cultural niche construction, since the species involved sustain human populations via the agroecologies ...

As a result, each era brought its own changes corresponding to the predominant culture, liking and concern to develop into what is now a highly influential global phenomenon of anime. Indeed ...

The research found that Lucy could run upright but at significantly slower speeds than modern humans, supporting the theory that human evolution focused on enhancing running performance, particularly ...

across the human body. The authors discover differences that are linked to the evolutionary histories of these genes and could contribute to sex-biased biology and disease.

A study suggests long scalp hair evolved as an adaptation to heat and later gained cultural significance. Researchers ...