There's no question that humans have left an indelible mark on the world, but we're also inadvertently steering the evolution ...

Animals and humans have always coexisted. Before cities, nomadic hunter-gatherers depended on animals for food, transport, ...

Scientists call it cumulative cultural evolution. As an anthropologist, I study a different feature of human culture that ...

Nov. 1, 2024 — New research has found that, unlike birds, the evolution of ... of aurochs -- the animals that were the focus of some of the most iconic early human art -- by analyzing 38 genomes ...

"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.

Complex neural circuits likely arose independently in birds and mammals, suggesting that vertebrates evolved intelligence ...

Whereas animal cultures affect just a few crucial ... Through open-ended cultural evolution, human beings produce open-endedness in culture. In this respect, our species is unparalleled.

Yodelling monkeys can produce far greater frequency jumps than humans due to special structures in their throats, research ...