The College of Natural Sciences welcomed more than a dozen new tenured and tenure-track faculty members in 2025.

Scientists are re-examining whether genetic changes remain the primary catalyst of human evolution, or if another factor has become more influential.

The story of life is one of small changes and major shifts. The growth from a single-celled organism to a multicellular one ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may be the result of millions of years of evolution. Rapid neuronal evolution in humans is ...

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

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 ...

How did humans become human? Understanding when, where and in what environmental conditions our early ancestors lived is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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