In 1835, Charles Darwin gazed at coral reefs in the Pacific Ocean, and these intricate marine structures sparked his thoughts on the evolution of life. Nearly two centuries later, Darwin's inquiry abo ...

Now some scientists claim in a new paper that culture has actually overtaken genetics as the leading force shaping human evolution, marking a major shift. Timothy Waring, an economist at the ...

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

F or the past century and a half, the concept of evolution has primarily been wielded by those describing change of a purely biological nature. But according to ecologist Mark Vellend, this sort of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

But Beekman, along with a growing number of scholars, many of them women, emphasizes familial care in our understanding of ...

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