New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...

In the spring, ants are once again hard at work. Beyond their everyday presence, ants are also key model organisms in cutting ...

Why do 90% of humans reach with the same hand? The answer stretches back millions of years and involves fossils, language and ...

Through a new review paper published in Nature, Georgia Tech scientists are revealing how decades-long research programs have transformed our understanding of evolution, uncovering secrets that would ...

Every living being must cope with a changing world—summer gives way to winter, one year it floods and the next is a drought. It's obvious that populations of plants and animals must constantly face ...

Amphioxus, as a basal chordate, offers an insightful window into the evolutionary origins of vertebrate development. Its embryogenesis, characterised by the formation of a notochord, neural tube and ...

As you may have heard via a barrage of internet memes, evolution can't get enough of crab-like forms. The body shape of crabs ...

The evolutionary case for eating meat is etched into human anatomy — but so is the case against it. The science deserves more ...

An international team has published EVApeCognition, the largest open-access dataset on great ape cognition, compiling 262 datasets from 150 studies over 18 years. Led by the University of Stirling and ...

By the time you tell yourself there’s nothing in the dark alley, your amygdala has already disagreed. Here’s why, according ...

Researchers say the AI system can lead to better decision-making around a wide range of complex policy choices. Using global land use and carbon storage data from the past 175 years, researchers at ...