It's tempting to think that we've reached the pinnacle of our evolution, but modern life continues to shape us just as much ...

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

New research challenges the long-standing idea that most fixed genetic mutations are neutral. For many years, scientists studying evolution have believed that most genetic changes influencing how ...

When males are forced to compete for females, new species form more rapidly. This has been shown in a new study where the ...

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

The virus that causes COVID-19 has accomplished something that school boards and other policy makers often refuse to do. It has given us a vivid, real-time lesson in how biological evolution works, ...

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

Lauren Schroeder has loved dinosaurs since age 3 and bones since she was 10. In her second year of university, she started studying the early evolution of the Homo genus and it turned into her Ph.D.

Skeletons of the early horse-relative Eohippus (left) and modern Equus (right). From Animals of the Past by Lucas. During the early 20th century many biologists were considering a variety of ...