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

Evolution is slow, but with the right experimental set-up—and enough time to spare—you can watch nature do its methodical ...

A major evolutionary theory says most genetic changes don’t really matter, but new evidence suggests that’s not true. Researchers found that helpful mutations happen surprisingly often. The twist is ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

Researchers discover that insect sex systems influence the speed of mitochondrial evolution, impacting biodiversity tracking ...

In medicine and biotechnology, the ability to evolve proteins with new or improved functions is crucial, but current methods are often slow and laborious. Now, Scripps Research scientists have ...

The researchers’ wider analysis, based on the reconstruction and more than 100 other skull fossils, has also sketched a radically different picture of human evolution, they reported Thursday in the ...

Why did humans evolve the eyes we have today? While scientists can't go back in time to study the environmental pressures that shaped the evolution of the diverse vision systems that exist in nature, ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

The researchers think the pattern they observed in ants reflects a more universal trend in the evolution of societal ...