Directed evolution is a laboratory technique that mimics natural selection and allows scientists to evolve genes and the ...

Stanford study finds rapid brain cell evolution boosted human cognition but lowered autism gene activity, raising vulnerability.

Television nature programs and scientific papers tend to celebrate the perfection of evolved traits. But the father of ...

Researchers discovered that autism’s prevalence may be linked to human brain evolution. Specific neurons in the outer brain evolved rapidly, and autism-linked genes changed under natural selection.

What makes the human brain different from that of other primates has long been a question. A new study suggests that the ...

Amid god-centered beliefs, some thinkers of ancient Greece wondered if life arose naturally, centuries before evolution became accepted.

While developing his theory of natural selection, Charles Darwin was horrified by a group of wasps that lay their eggs within ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may be the result of millions of years of evolution. Rapid neuronal evolution in humans is likely ASD’s genetic cause, new research suggests. Though autism can cause ...

New research reveals how human brain evolution may explain autism’s high prevalence, highlighting genetic trade-offs in ...

Learn why some researchers say that our culture – not genetics – is driving our evolution and what that could mean for our ...