Evolution is always happening — so why can't we see it? A biologist explains the timescale problem, election pressure, and ...

(Volodymyr Yakimchuk/Creatas Video+/Getty Images Plus) A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have brought us to a major turning point in our evolutionary journey. According ...

Vision shapes how many animals find food, avoid danger and navigate their world. In animals with two eyes, eye placement is ...

Hundreds of hominin fossils reveal that human body size remained stable for ages before a sharp increase in early members of ...

A vast stretch of islands across the South Pacific holds one of the oldest human stories on Earth. For tens of thousands of ...

Is it possible to study the history of viruses that emerged several hundred million years ago? An international team of INRAE ...

Scotland's island wrens are quietly breaking the rules of evolution, growing in ways that have stunned researchers and raised ...

Humans Are Still Evolving. Natural Selection Has Favored Genes Linked to Red Hair and Less Male-Pattern Baldness, a Study ...

Researchers at the Technion have discovered how changes in genetic regulatory sequences can lead to alterations in the form and structure of animals—even when genetic regulatory systems are stable and ...