Scientists at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome and the University of Bordeaux in France report that human ...

A variety of researchers are converging on the view that human evolution has been shaped by gene–culture interactions. Theoretical biologists use models to demonstrate that cultural processes ...

Evolution has been a cornerstone of the biological sciences for the better part of a century. Rarely, however, has evolutionary science been considered valuable in understanding contemporary human ...

This process produces our uniquely complex cultures: Scientists call it cumulative cultural evolution. As an anthropologist, I study a different feature of human culture that researchers are beginning ...

"Human evolution is mostly driven by cultural change, which is faster than genetic evolution. That greater speed of adaptation has made it possible for humans to colonize all habitable land ...

be developed into defining aspects of the human condition. At each stage of evolution, latent technological capacities exist within the structure of cultural variability; in different regions or ...

But, it is unclear when cumulative culture first developed during hominin evolution.

Our culture and technology today are also the ... of Human Origins and associate professor with the School of Human Evolution and Social Change. To investigate when this technological turn may ...

“Humanity’s development of the ability to speak was without doubt the key which made much of subsequent human physical and cultural evolution possible. That’s why dating the emergence of the ...

“Human evolution is mostly driven by cultural change, which is faster than genetic evolution. That greater speed of adaptation has made it possible for humans to colonize all habitable land ...