A recent study has uncovered the surprising evolutionary origin of the mammalian outer ear, linking it to the gills of ancient fish and marine invertebrates. The research reveals that both structures ...

Virginia Tech study unveils 2 billion years of evolution, highlighting the 'boring billion,' Snowball Earth, and ancient ...

Many new names sounded as if they’d been cooked up by a medieval monk. HIV-1 would henceforth be known as Lentivirus ...

Hundreds of perforated Cambrian shells reveal distinctive predator-prey dynamics in the ocean 517 million years ago.

Research on ancient footprints in Kenya demonstrates coexistence of Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei 1.5 million years ...

What will humanity look like in 50,000 years? It’s a tantalizing question that invites us to peer into the future, blending ...

Evolutionary biologist Huang Shi argues that lack of genetic diversity among East Asians suggests they are real ancestors of modern humans The long-held theory of human evolution says that modern ...

Filled with legendary photos and fascinating history, a magnificent new book traces the evolution of Chanel makeup ... In 1924, she launched a makeup line. “It was an unexpected move ...

Truth told, most evolutionary scholars of all kinds would take issue with this take on a Darwinian approach to the human condition. Based on decades of work in the evolutionary behavioral sciences ...

Tiffany Taylor, professor of microbial ecology and evolution at the University of ... needed to grow when iron was scarce (like in the human body), while the white ones had a mutation preventing ...

We propose that the switch from twins to singletons was critical for the evolution of large human babies with large brains that were capable of complex learning as infants and young children.