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Shamahi charts humanity's evolutionary odyssey. We sat down with her to discuss the path of our species out of Africa to ...

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Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift — driven not by genes, but by culture. Cultural practices — from farming ...

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

In a Genomic Press Interview published today in Brain Medicine, Dr. Alex Tsompanidis highlights an exciting new idea that ...

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

There is something, however, that distinctly separates us humans from the vast majority of mammals: we live long past our reproductive years. Most living things continue reproducing until they ...

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In a Vermont cheese cave, green mold turned white in just eight years. Genetic shifts reveal how microbes adapt quickly to dark, stable conditions.