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

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My colleague and I have published a new study of cactus flowers which may help explain the conundrum. For more than a century ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Life did not begin with one primordial cell. Instead, there were initially at least three simple types of loosely constructed cellular organizations. They swam in a pool of genes, ...

The story of how us humans—and other mammals—got our noses may have just gotten more complicated. This is the conclusion of a new study by researchers from Japan who have studied how the face develops ...