For thousands of years, humans have selectively bred dogs to fulfill specific roles, ranging from guarding and hunting to ...

Albert Einstein might be the daddy of all eggheads. But as his famous theory of special relativity turns 120, we tip our hats ...

Humans lost their ability to synthesize their own vitamin C because our ancestors had access to plenty of fruit.

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Scientists reconstructed 500 million years of evolutionary history to reveal which came first: colorful signals or the color ...

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Two new studies add to the evidence that human activity, from fishing to urban development, is driving the evolution of wild ...

Scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Queen Mary University of London have discovered that a new generation of ash ...

Alignment and sequencing errors are a major concern in molecular evolution, and this valuable study represents a welcome improvement for genome-wide scans of positive selection. This new method seems ...

The existence of ant colonies was a mystery even to the famous naturalist Charles Darwin. How could evolution produce workers ...

John Scopes was indicted for teaching evolution. Science News looks at the forces that led to the trial and how expertise was the big loser.

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