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The human body is an amazing thing, but there's no doubt that it's also capable of some pretty gross stuff. There's a reason ...
Tech is evolving too fast for human biology. Mental health trends show we're struggling. To survive, we must speed up adaptation—culturally, mentally, and structurally.
Are you lactose intolerant? Many people are. In fact, the ability to digest lactose may be an example of adaptive evolution in the human lineage. Although the study of natural selection in humans ...
Investigating the signatures of natural selection can help elucidate the evolutionary adaptations that have allowed humans to withstand some of our most complex and challenging selective agents.
Animals use tools and pass knowledge through culture, aiding survival and adaptation. Human impact is destroying these traditions.
Ancient DNA has been successfully extracted and analysed from 35,000 year-old human remains from Europe 2. The good preservation of the DNA we retrieved from Cheddar Man is unusual, but not unexpected ...
Suppose we do not accelerate human adaptation. If that is the case, the divide between our world and our capacity to navigate it will become unbridgeable. We already observe early warning signs ...