Human evolution is the part of biological evolution concerning the emergence of humans as a distinct species. It is the subject of a broad scientific inquiry that seeks to understand and describe ...

Scopes trial, in which a Dayton, Tennessee, teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching biological evolution, ...

There are several notable examples of evolution among modern humans in our relatively recent history. In fact, Longrich said: "Humans are evolving rapidly—maybe more rapidly than we've ever been ...

Biggest Biological Evolution: Experts Predict Humans Will Be Like Cyborgs In 200 Years. By Rhodi Lee Updated: May 27 2015, 01:00 AM EDT .

Biological evolution relies on the reproductive success of individuals, ... adapt the environment to ourselves, and not ourselves to the environment. Humans are still tropical animals, for example, ...

Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate. Publishing in Cell Genomics, researchers have identified a genetic ...

Convergent Evolution of Complex Brains. What makes this finding even more striking is that the brains of octopuses and humans seem to have grown complex in a remarkably similar way, despite ...