Evolution is the accepted explanation for life's diversity today, but there are still some holes in the process that we don't understand. To peer back in time at certain key steps, scientists at the ...

Research in evolutionary developmental biology, known as "evo-devo," is being held back because the dominant model organisms used by scientists are unable to illustrate key questions about evolution, ...

The theory of evolution by natural selection was first formulated in Darwin’s book “On the Origin of Species” in 1859. It ...

Sitting along the border of Spain and France is a stunning natural laboratory, not only in the typical sense of the word—as ...

The Hippo signaling pathway that helps control tissue size in animals and malfunctions in cancers already existed before ...

An international team of scientists has discovered the greatest absence of evolution ever reported — a type of deep-sea microorganism that appears not to have evolved over more than 2 billion years.

In a new book, NASA astrobiologist Caleb Scharf says the fate of life on Earth may hinge on leaving our planet behind ...

Matthew Wills, Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology at the Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath and Tim Rock, PhD Candidate in Biology, University of Bath Large species tend to evolve ...

Ancient supercontinent Nuna's breakup around 1.5 billion years ago set off a chain of events that made Earth more habitable, ...

To maintain a Darwinian perspective on culture we must view humans as passive imitators and transmitters, ignoring cthe ...

Evolution education in the United States remains controversial and challenging. This is in part due to the difficulty educators face when trying to overcome students’ preexisting beliefs about ...

Palaeontologists have provided new proof of parallel evolution: conodonts, early vertebrates from the Permian period, adapted to new habitats in almost identical ways despite living in different ...