Forget Survival Of The Fittest. Humans Conquered Our Planet By Sharing Ideas. In A Nutshell Humans spread across nearly every ...

Humans really do rule the world. We took over fast and far, more than any other wild vertebrates. We inhabit nearly every ...

From epic poetry to game shows, from Stone Age axes to spaceflight, humans have the most complex cultures of any species on Earth. Since the time of Darwin, scientists have suspected that this culture ...

A new study shows cultural evolution helped humans expand across Earth far faster than genetic change alone could achieve.

(Volodymyr Yakimchuk/Creatas Video+/Getty Images Plus) A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have ...

Focusing on higher-order aspects of sui generis human behavior like language and certain forms of culture leads psychologists to wrongly appraise the relationship between culture and biology. Since ...

New research has found that constraints in the way our brains work can shape the way people interact when creating music, influencing its evolution. The results are published this week [22 March] in ...

In 2018, a group of French scientists covered a male fruit fly in pink dust before introducing him to a room full of virgin females. In a parallel room, they did the same thing but dusted him in green ...

For well over a century, Darwin’s theory of natural selection has served as biology’s grand unifying framework, explaining how species adapt and evolve through the differential replication of randomly ...

Humans are fundamentally "musical animals"—and our capacity for music is rooted in biology, not just culture. This is the ...