This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

What will humans be like generations from now in a world transformed by artificial intelligence (AI)? Plenty of thinkers have applied themselves to questions like this, considering how AI will alter ...

Humans, who are classified among the five great apes, are closest genetically, i.e., DNA similarity, to chimpanzees (98.8%-99%) and bonobos (98.8%). [Blueringmedia ...

In a recent review published in the journal Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, researchers discussed the role of climatic shifts and vegetation changes in driving the evolution within the subfamily ...

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. "Human evolution seems to be changing ...

Theory in human biology : evolution, ecology, adaptability, and variation / Rebecca Huss-Ashmore -- History of human biology in the United States of America / Francis E. Johnston and Michael A. Little ...

Throughout most of human history, evolution progressed slowly. Small genetic changes took thousands of years to permeate populations. Natural selection was intentional, reactive, and gradual. However, ...

* Evolutionary gene loss has steadily reduced the Y chromosome to a small set of essential genes * Gene// conversion may increase variation but does not restore lost genetic function * Future sex ...