A new study suggests culture is reshaping human evolution faster than DNA, redefining how our species adapts, survives, and ...

Perhaps such a transition will be increasingly adaptive. Faced with growing ecological and social crises, the current ...

Globally, autism affects about 1 in 100 children, according to the World Health Organization. In the U.S., the rate is closer to 1 in 31, or 3.2%. That’s far higher than what researchers observe in ...

Genetics may no longer be the driving force of human evolution, a study by researchers from the University of Maine suggests.

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary ...

If you have spent time with an infant, you might recognize the scene: A child is wailing, inconsolable, and you, the parent, have to go to the bathroom. Or eat. Or attend to a pot that’s boiling over.

The Price equation has been entangled with social evolution theory from the start. It has been used to derive the most general versions of kin selection theory, and Price himself produced a multilevel ...

Over the past 500 million years, nearly all evolutionary changes in octopuses and squids occurred in rapid bursts during the emergence of new species, according to research from the University of ...

American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 123, No. 6 (May 2018), pp. 1601-1634 (34 pages) Status behaviors are verbal and nonverbal behaviors that elevate or lower the status of the individuals who perform ...