Evolution, a new five-part series tells the extraordinary story of how life on Earth has changed over more than four billion ...

A new study, published July 6, 2026, in the journal Nature Communications, suggests that two of the best-known trends in ...

Our brains are large compared with other animals, so it is tempting to assume there was an evolutionary advantage to them – ...

A vast stretch of islands across the South Pacific holds one of the oldest human stories on Earth. For tens of thousands of ...

Synthetic cell SpudCell, the first built from non-living components by University of Minnesota synthetic biologists Kate ...

Vision shapes how many animals find food, avoid danger and navigate their world. In animals with two eyes, eye placement is ...

Grey hair isn't random decline — it's melanocyte stem cells wearing out, a flaw natural selection never bothered fixing. Here ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from China reveal that bryozoans were already thriving during the Cambrian explosion.

Is there really such a thing as human nature? The answer lies between two old extremes, and getting it right shapes how we face AI, authoritarianism, and climate.

Evolution is always happening — so why can't we see it? A biologist explains the timescale problem, election pressure, and ...

Sometimes, our preference for certitude, our need to define things with conviction, closes us off from possibility.

Evolutionary psychology is known for dark parts of our nature, like homicide. But it also explains prosocial behaviors, like ...