Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary ...

In a Vermont cheese cave, green mold turned white in just eight years. Genetic shifts reveal how microbes adapt quickly to dark, stable conditions.

Many scientific discoveries are serendipitous—the result of chance. Seeing evolution in action in a cheese cave turned out to ...

New research suggests that the evolution of the human brain may explain why autism is more common in humans than in other ...

ASTANA – High school textbooks may frame evolution as a thing of the past, but it is very much alive, said Dr. Arkhat ...

Globally, autism affects about 1 in 100 children, according to the World Health Organization. In the U.S., the rate is closer ...

Like other species, we are the products of millions of years of adaptation. Now we're taking matters into our own hands.

Scientists have traced the genetic and molecular steps that allowed humans to walk upright. A Nature study reveals that the ...

Artificial intelligence is now better than humans at identifying many patterns, but evolutionary relationships have always ...

Scientists at the Institut Pasteur and McMaster University have discovered that the evolution of a gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, may have prolonged the duration of ...

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Summary: A new study suggests that autism may be linked to the rapid evolution of brain cell types unique to humans.