Human aging is not what natural selection failed to prevent. It is what happens when selection simply has nothing left to act ...

Genome duplication probably gave biodiversity a decisive evolutionary boost. A Chinese-German research team led by Axel Meyer ...

A nearly complete 90-million-year-old dinosaur fossil, Alnashetri cerropoliciensis, is turning evolutionary theories upside ...

The human body is full of evolutionary compromises. The loss of the tail may be one of the clearest examples of how change ...

By the time you tell yourself there’s nothing in the dark alley, your amygdala has already disagreed. Here’s why, according ...

A new study, which centers on evidence from skulls of a 6-million-year-old fossil ape, Lufengpithecus, offers important clues about the origins of bipedal locomotion courtesy of a novel method: ...

Our bodies are not perfectly designed, but are a living archive of evolution. Anatomy reveals a historical record of ...

How did human intelligence evolve? The release of the EVApeCognition dataset provides 18 years of standardized data on great ...