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 ...

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

Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the ...

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.

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Evan Simons, postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Anthropology, answers a question for The Conversation’s “Curious Kids” feature. Everything that is alive today has evolved, including ...

A niche is the structural, temporal, and social context in which a species exists. Over the last two million years, the human lineage underwent clear morphological changes alongside less easily ...

The American Anthropological Association (AAA), the primary professional society of anthropologists in the United States since its founding in 1902, is the world's largest professional organization of ...

Oct 3, 2025, 12:15 pm - Manvir Singh researches the nature and origins of ubiquitous sociocultural traditions such as ...