A new study posits that same-sex sexual behavior developed to help primates in complex social groups ease tension, reduce ...

A new study by researchers at Imperial College London and published on Monday in Nature Ecology & Evolution could help shed ...

A large-scale population genomic study has shed new light on the evolutionary and domestication history of the button ...

Earth’s first sponges may have been ghostly, soft-bodied pioneers—ancient animals that evolved long before their skeletons ...

A reduced genome in an island species raises evolutionary questions.

Some ants thrive by choosing numbers over strength. Instead of heavily protecting each worker, they invest fewer resources in individual armor and produce far more ants. Larger colonies then ...

A paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, reports that Italian bears living in areas with many villages evolved and became smaller and less aggressive. Humans have long shaped the environments in ...

As our evolution slows and industrialization and technology accelerates, a growing body of research suggests that human biology is struggling to keep pace. Many of the chronic stress-related health ...

Hundreds of miles off the coast of Ecuador, in the very place that inspired Charles Darwin’s seminal theory of evolution, a wild-growing species appears to have hit rewind. A small tomato found in the ...

A timeline of genetic changes in millions of years of human evolution shows that variants linked to higher intelligence appeared most rapidly around 500,000 years ago, and were closely followed by ...

Ella Al-Shamahi is the host of “Human,” premiering on PBS this month. As an 18-year-old Muslim missionary, I enrolled at University College London intent on destroying the theory of evolution. Today, ...

Speakers at a school board meeting and on social media have voiced opposition, citing religious beliefs and a desire for more open discussion. The letter states that evolution is a unifying scientific ...