A stunning discovery buried deep inside a cave for 1.8 million years is rewriting the story of human evolution.

When Charles Darwin developed his theory of evolution in the mid-19th century, he figured this fundamental process took place very slowly over geological timescales, taking millions of years. But is ...

Sunlight provides the energy necessary for photosynthesis and growth, but it also exposes plants to harmful ultraviolet-B (UV ...

Key results for three environments. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2413930121 The field of evolution examines how organisms adapt to their ...

The fact that living things evolve in the face of environmental change is not news, but a study now suggests that the process of evolution itself evolves, too. The "evolvability" of evolution is a ...

Pour out a bottle of Head & Shoulders for Ivan Reitman's Evolution on its 25-year anniversary.