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Human Evolution May Be Undergoing a Major Shift Right Before Our Eyes

(Volodymyr Yakimchuk/Creatas Video+/Getty Images Plus) A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have ...

How humans took over the planet: The role of cultural evolution

Humans really do rule the world. We took over fast and far, more than any other wild vertebrates. We inhabit nearly every ...
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How cultural evolution helped humans spread across nearly every habitat on Earth

Forget Survival Of The Fittest. Humans Conquered Our Planet By Sharing Ideas. In A Nutshell Humans spread across nearly every habitat on Earth in around 300,000 years, a feat that biology alone would ...
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Was our emotional intelligence the key driver of human evolution?

Humans appear to be set apart from much of the animal kingdom, even if we do say so ourselves. While we often credit our survival to superior intellect and our hyper-competitive spirit, a new study ...
National Catholic Reporter

Too little, too late: The church's inadequate response to AI-human evolution

While the Vatican acknowledges stages of technological development, it lacks a model of integrating science and religion that can adequately assess the influence of technology. The Vatican's approach, ...
The Conversation

Fun with fossils: South African kids learn a whole lot more about human evolution from museum workshops

Shaw Badenhorst works for the University of the Witwatersrand. He receives funding from GENUS, the National Research Foundation and the Palaeontological Scientific Trust. South Africa has one of the ...