If evolution has been a constant ever since the origin of life 4.2 billion years ago, then why do some claim that, for humans ...

Human aging is not what natural selection failed to prevent. It is what happens when selection simply has nothing left to act ...

Some of the smallest organisms might have influenced our own evolutionary path. A new study has found that the distribution ...

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis occurred, where life emerged from non-life. Imagine a hot, watery mix of ...

A massive ancient DNA study reveals evolution didn’t stop — it sped up, reshaping human genes in just 10000 years ...

Many people today simply assume that our evolution has quietly ended with the development of the modern human. It's easy to think that medicine, science, and modern living have made us "perfect" or ...

How did humans become human? Understanding when, where and in what environmental conditions our early ancestors lived is central to solving the puzzle of human evolution. Unfortunately, pinning down a ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, finds that the relatively high rate of Autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in ...

Are humans natural born runners? Here’s why evolutionary and anatomical evidence suggests running was more central to our ...