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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...