Fire is an ancient natural phenomenon that has shaped our planet for more than 400 million years. It alters habitats, affects ...

Two new studies add to the evidence that human activity, from fishing to urban development, is driving the evolution of wild ...

The study questions the long-held belief that northern Africa became arid around 3 million years ago, which coincides with ...

New research suggests that the unique way human placentas produce sex hormones during pregnancy may have been a key driver ...

A new breakdown of earthworm DNA could help us better understand how evolution works, and it could prove Darwin completely ...

Learn why the idea of an ancient African drying period is now being challenged and what this means for the story of the first humans.

Scientists have found genetic evidence of an ancient group of people in Colombia with no modern-day descendants. It’s as if ...

Human infants receive up to 400 times more direct vocal communication than baby bonobos and nearly 70 times more than baby ...

The evolutionary ladder is meant to be climbed one rung at a time with an organism shedding some traits and gaining others on ...

Worms radically reorganized their genomes during their move from sea to land, supporting the theory of punctuated equilibrium ...

Eastern Baltic cod have evolved to be smaller and slip through nets, according to landmark research that links overfishing to ...

Decades of overfishing have altered the genetic makeup of Baltic cod, shrinking their size and threatening their recovery.