A new study theorizes that evolution ticks at different speeds, especially when a big group of organisms first appears.

Nkembuh, N. (2026) Symbiotic Communication Systems: Examining the Co-Evolution of Human-AI Communication Patterns in the ...

As 2025 ends, the media landscape stands as a mirror of a year marked by political upheaval, cultural flashpoints, and a ...

Evolution Festival has announced that the Forest Park–based music festival will not return in 2026. The event has been “placed on pause,” according to organizers, in order to avoid conflict with other ...

For a long time, evolutionary biologists have thought that the genetic mutations that drive the evolution of genes and proteins are largely neutral: they're neither good nor bad, but just ordinary ...

In Part One of this series, we saw that culture doesn't suffer from the problem that Darwin's theory of natural selection successfully solved: the problem of how change accumulates in biological ...

Students are reporting several positive changes in their medical school experience this year, an Oct. 24 Medscape report found. “The Unique Culture of Medical School” report surveyed 500 students in ...

Non-communicable diseases—such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer, respiratory diseases, diabetes, and chronic pain—pose significant global health challenges, causing millions of deaths annually.

Forget survival of the fittest, think survival of the most adaptable culture. A bold new theory from researchers at the University of Maine suggests that human evolution is no longer driven primarily ...

ORONO, Maine — Humans may be experiencing one of the most unusual evolutionary changes in our species’ history, and it may have little to do with DNA. A new study from the University of Maine suggests ...

Human evolution has often been depicted as a process of adaptation, where natural selection and genetic changes drive species toward better-suited traits for survival in their environments. But this ...