A new study theorizes that evolution ticks at different speeds, especially when a big group of organisms first appears.

Engineers at the University of California have developed a new data structure and compression technique that enables the ...

A controversial idea in evolutionary biology argues that genes—not individuals or species—are the true drivers of natural ...

Songbirds on the UCLA campus changed beak shapes during the pandemic, according to a new study. Researchers suspect it might ...

An evolutionary architecture strategy ensures rapid responses to unforeseen events. Autonomously acting teams make informed ...

Environmental change doesn’t affect evolution in a single, predictable way. In large-scale computer simulations, scientists ...

Scientists have revealed that ancient bones unearthed deep in a quarry date back approximately 773,000 years - and could be a ...

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in ...

When the RORC Transatlantic Race fleet slips its moorings in Lanzarote on Sunday, the Atlantic will present itself as a vast, ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

The oldest fossilised remains of complex animals appear suddenly in the fossil record, and as if from nowhere, in rocks that ...