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

Globally, autism affects about 1 in 100 children, according to the World Health Organization. In the U.S., the rate is closer ...

F or the past century and a half, the concept of evolution has primarily been wielded by those describing change of a purely ...

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