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

(Volodymyr Yakimchuk/Creatas Video+/Getty Images Plus) A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have ...

Hundreds of hominin fossils reveal that human body size remained stable for ages before a sharp increase in early members of ...

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Mollusks have produced many evolutionary innovations since they first appeared 540 million years ago, including spiral shells and a toothed tongue. A new study shows that about half of these ...

Depending upon how you do the counting, there are around 9 million species on Earth, from the simplest single-celled organisms to humans. It's reassuring to imagine that complex bodies and brains like ...

A groundbreaking study has found that evolution is not as unpredictable as previously thought, which could allow scientists to explore which genes could be useful to tackle real-world issues such as ...

In his 1989 book Wonderful Life, the late Harvard scientist Stephen Jay Gould imagined rewinding life’s history to an early ...

As the centennial of the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 approaches, a new study illustrates that the attitudes of Americans in Generation X toward evolution shifted as they aged. As the centennial of the ...