Usually when you think of evolution or natural selection, you think of survival of the fittest. But sometimes, the resulting ...

New research suggests fire was key to making our bodies successful in evolution – but not in the ways we previously thought.

Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping ...

Did you know humans might have had a third eye, if it weren't for evolution? A common misconception is that evolution is a ...

The author combines his birdwatching accounts in England’s Pennine hills with a chronicle of the scientific debates around ...

Some think the rise of C-sections means that one day all births will require serious medical intervention. But a surprising new understanding of the pelvis suggests a different story ...

Centralized migration accelerates adaptation and drives parallel evolution, emphasizing the key influence of spatial organization on evolutionary dynamics across systems from pathogen transmission to ...

It is highly likely that Hume and Smith were acquainted with speciation. Here we suggest that Hume and Smith were ...

Machine learning redesigns microscopic web sensors to be five times more flexible than nature-inspired versions, enabling detection of masses as small as trillionths of a gram.

For a long time, most scientists believed that early human hunter-gatherer societies were mostly equal, with little hierarchy ...