Recent finds of hominid fossils and associated archaeological remains throughout the world are reviewed, and their significance for our understanding of human biological and cultural evolution ...

A new book, Human Evolution Beyond Biology and Culture: Evolutionary Social, Environmental and Policy Sciences, offers a complete account of evolutionary thinking in the social, environmental and ...

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 ...

Think of evolution, and you might think of Darwin's finches and natural selection. But according to researchers writing in the journal BioScience, it is not our genes that are determining our current ...

Evolution, classification, and nomenclature -- The geologic time frame -- The primate background -- The Australopiths and Homo habilis -- Evolution of the genus Homo -- The Neanderthals and their ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Will emerging conservation frameworks rise to the challenge? The biodiverse Sepik River region in eastern Papua New Guinea is thought to harbor ...

As I read Dr. Gregory Tague's forceful, comprehensive, reasonably argued, and futuristic new book The Vegan Evolution: Transforming Diets and Agriculture, I came to realize, once again, that a "vegan ...