A new study theorizes that evolution ticks at different speeds, especially when a big group of organisms first appears.
This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...
For more than a century, biologists assumed that the bony plates embedded in the skin of lizards – like natural chain mail – ...
It may have fewer than many of the other sciences, but biology does have two dozen or so “rules”—broad generalizations about ...
Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in ...
Environmental change doesn’t affect evolution in a single, predictable way. In large-scale computer simulations, scientists ...