Humans really do rule the world. We took over fast and far, more than any other wild vertebrates. We inhabit nearly every ...

A new study reveals how cultural evolution, not biology, enabled humans to inhabit diverse environments across the globe.

Humans really are everywhere. More than any other vertebrate species, we have managed to quickly spread across the planet and ...

A new study shows cultural evolution helped humans expand across Earth far faster than genetic change alone could achieve.

In 1758, Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus gave humans a scientific name: Homo sapiens, which means "wise human" in Latin. Although Linnaeus grouped humans with other apes, it was English biologist ...