The 2006 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX arrived at a moment when turbocharged all-wheel-drive sedans still felt raw, ...

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 ...

Students are reporting several positive changes in their medical school experience this year, an Oct. 24 Medscape report found. “The Unique Culture of Medical School” report surveyed 500 students in ...

Non-communicable diseases—such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer, respiratory diseases, diabetes, and chronic pain—pose significant global health challenges, causing millions of deaths annually.

Forget survival of the fittest, think survival of the most adaptable culture. A bold new theory from researchers at the University of Maine suggests that human evolution is no longer driven primarily ...

ORONO, Maine — Humans may be experiencing one of the most unusual evolutionary changes in our species’ history, and it may have little to do with DNA. A new study from the University of Maine suggests ...

Human evolution has often been depicted as a process of adaptation, where natural selection and genetic changes drive species toward better-suited traits for survival in their environments. But this ...

Culture, not genetics, may now lead human evolution. Credit: Stadtpflaenzchen / Wikimedia Commons / CC0 1.0 Human evolution is entering a new phase, according to researchers at the University of Maine ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift — driven not by genes, but by culture. In a paper published in the Oxford ...

Department of Foreign Languages, Qilu Normal University, Jinan, China. Driven by globalization, social media has become a key field for cross-cultural communication. Since 2019, the U.S. government, ...

It’s widely accepted conventional wisdom that when it comes to creative works—TV shows, films, music, books—consumers crave an optimal balance between novelty and familiarity. What we choose to ...

For decades, biologists have studied how cities affect wildlife by altering food supplies, fragmenting habitats and polluting the environment. But a new global study argues that these physical factors ...