Researchers discovered that certain human brain cells evolved unusually fast, altering autism-linked gene activity.

New research suggests that the evolution of the human brain may explain why autism is more common in humans than in other ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may be the result of millions of years of evolution. Rapid neuronal evolution in humans is ...

A paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution finds that the relatively high rate of autism-spectrum disorders in humans is ...

Globally, autism affects about 1 in 100 children, according to the World Health Organization. In the U.S., the rate is closer to 1 in 31, or 3.2%. That’s far higher than what researchers observe in ...

But Beekman, along with a growing number of scholars, many of them women, emphasizes familial care in our understanding of ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary ...

A new study suggests culture is reshaping human evolution faster than DNA, redefining how our species adapts, survives, and ...

How did humans become human? Understanding when, where and in what environmental conditions our early ancestors lived is ...

Summary: A new study suggests that autism may be linked to the rapid evolution of brain cell types unique to humans. Researchers found that outer-layer neurons in the human brain evolved far more ...