For decades, the story of human origins has been pieced together from fossil evidence scattered across Africa, Europe, and ...

Large-scale poultry vaccinations may be driving bird flu evolution, according to a concerning new international study.

Homo erectus outlived and outadapted other hominins by mastering life in extreme environments of Eastern Africa, a new study ...

A century after the Scopes trial, hopeful prospects beckon for teaching the unifying principle of the biological sciences in ...

Humans' increasingly large footprint across the planet is forcing plants & animals to adapt and is affecting some species' evolutionary path.

A recent study at Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at Institute of Science Tokyo has developed a theoretical model that uncovers the dual role of polyploidy—organisms carrying extra genome ...

Scientists suggest meat consumption was pivotal to humans' development of larger brains, but the transition probably didn't ...

A new study indicates that human behavior around 45,000 to 29,000 years ago contributed to a change in the composition of ...

Embarking on a journey through the annals of human evolution, we uncover a narrative that is as fascinating as it is complex. This saga not only chronicles the physical transformations experienced by ...

To reconstruct the environmental conditions during the time of Homo erectus, the research team used advanced modeling ...

Researchers have described how the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus genetically adapts to humans, including mutations that allow some strains to evade the immune system and become resistant to ...