Evolution, a new five-part series tells the extraordinary story of how life on Earth has changed over more than four billion ...

A new study, published July 6, 2026, in the journal Nature Communications, suggests that two of the best-known trends in ...

A new landmark study has uncovered evidence that challenges the long-held beliefs about human evolution.

Deep oceans contain microbes with yet-to-be-discovered properties that could drive future innovations in biotechnology.

(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 ...

Biologists group animals with similar traits into broad categories called orders. Despite their similarities, animal species ...

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

For nearly 30 years, a landmark study shaped how scientists understood the relationship between brain and body size in primates. Now, an Oxford evolutionary psychologist who doubted it from the start ...

A groundbreaking study has found that evolution is not as unpredictable as previously thought, which could allow scientists to explore which genes could be useful to tackle real-world issues such as ...