Directed evolution is usually a laborious process that often takes weeks in which proteins rapidly evolve and develop ...

The fossilized chompers are evidence of a previously unknown hominin that coexisted with the earliest humans 2.8 million ...

A new study reveals that the majority of Earth’s species stem from a few evolutionary explosions, where new traits or habitats sparked rapid diversification. From flowers to birds, these bursts ...

An international team from Tel Aviv University and France’s National Centre for Scientific Research announced that a reanalysis of a child’s skull from Skhul Cave on Mount Carmel in Israel provided ...

The teeth also confirm that there were at least four types of hominins throughout East Africa at the time, with a fifth ...

Natural ecosystems are intricate webs where species can interact directly, like predators and prey, or influence one another ...

An anthropologist highlights the revolutionary role of the practice, which was often led by women, and was just as crucial to ...

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as "junk" and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study ...

She believes the lizards probably have many more urban adaptations including color, claw, tail shape and egg-laying behavior.

One hundred years ago, the small town of Dayton, Tenn., became the unlikely stage for one of the most sensational trials in American history, over the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution.

A century after the Scopes trial, hopeful prospects beckon for teaching the unifying principle of the biological sciences in the U.S.’s classrooms ...

Scholar explains what the LDS Church's latest essay on science and religion says about where the faith stands now on evolution and creationism.