A popular theory suggests wolves domesticated themselves for human food scraps—and new simulations suggests it's paw-sible.

Before Darwin’s theory became central to evolutionary biology, it still had gaps that were left to be filled—until a certain ...

A new study published in Biological Reviews critically examines the parallels and key differences between human migration and ...

For biochemists, it's the which-came-first question: oxygen production by photosynthesis or oxygen consumption by aerobic ...

The prevailing scientific theory about dinosaurs on Hațeg Island was that they shrank in size due to their limited resources, a process called “island dwarfism.” The presence of large Uriash ...

A study suggests that Earth's changing conditions dictated when life evolved, questioning the great filter theory.

The curiosity of human beings to shed light on our past has always driven the study and analysis of different evolutionary ...

A human-specific NOVA1 gene variant may have influenced the emergence of spoken language. When introduced into mice, it ...

Biologists previously believed modern birds had evolved 20 million years later than the new evidence suggests.

For a long time, scientists believed that human-like life was extremely rare in the universe. The “hard steps” theory, ...

A new model has shown that humanity might not be exceptional but instead a natural result of evolution on our […] ...

Two Distinct Groups Mated Over Hundreds and Thousands of Years to Give Us the Modern Humans Human evolution has always been a ...