When our distant ancestors first traded nomadic life for farming, villages, and permanent homes, you might assume that the ...

New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...

Someone once asked me “Is evolution still happening?” My brief answer was “Of course, it’s always happening.” I would have gone on to explain a bit, but the questioner turned and walked away. That ...

As global warming accelerates, extreme heat waves are causing widespread death of tropical reef corals. Most corals rely on ...

Cosmologists have spent decades trying to pin down exactly how fast the universe is flying apart and whether that rate is ...

There was a moment in human history when our entire existence may have desperately clung to a thousand or more people.

A massive ancient DNA study reveals evolution didn’t stop — it sped up, reshaping human genes in just 10000 years ...

The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries in evolution. It may not be that simple.

Research into human genomic diversity has a number of applications in biomedicine, evolution, and history. However, many ...

Evolution isn’t a single, straightforward process – it works in several distinct ways. From species splitting apart over time ...