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 ...

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, ...

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.

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

Charles Darwin's "Origin of Species" was published in 1859. Its basic idea--that life evolved by survival of the fittest through natural selection--has long been accepted as scientific fact. And yet, ...

In DreamWorks' 2001 science fiction comedy film Evolution, starring David Duchovny, Orlando Jones, Sean William Scott, and Julianne Moore, a meteor impact delivers a strange breed of alien life to ...

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 ...