A major milestone has been reached, with experts across Europe, including those at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge ...

Strong competition for mates triggers dramatic changes in beetles, offering rare insight into the early stages of species ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...

This study explains why helpful DNA changes appear often but rarely spread, because environments shift too fast for evolution ...

On November 24, 1859, Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species and transformed our understanding of life on Earth by ...

The data showed that a dog with a similar weight to a wolf had a brain volume about three-quarters the size of the wolf’s.

The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, is the northernmost rhino known to have ever ...

Evolution describes changes in inherited traits of populations through successive generations. To fully understand the science of ecology, one must first be able to grasp evolutionary concepts. Aa Aa ...

WEEK. ALL RIGHT, JASON, THANKS SO MUCH. WELL, SOME IOWANS ARE RAISING CONCERNS ABOUT NEW PROPOSED STATE SCIENCE STANDARDS. THE IOWA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION’S PROPOSAL WOULD REMOVE THE PHRASE CLIMATE ...

Evolution is neither purposeful nor intentional: it has no ideal, aim, or end-point. For evolutionary change, there are no ...

Researchers have identified a case of a sudden evolutionary change. In a new study, the scientists describe a population of columbines that have lost their petals, including the characteristic nectar ...