Evolution is the way groups of life-forms change over time to better fit the places they live. It is why life takes "such ...

Survival of the fittest’ is Darwin 101. But did you know that Charles Darwin didn’t actually coin that phrase? Let’s explore ...

Birds descended from the dinosaurs, but researchers have known relatively little about how the bird's brain took shape over ...

Lucy’s discovery transformed our understanding of human origins. Don Johanson, who unearthed the Australopithecus afarensis ...

Then, as the amount of information to be transmitted increased, evolution would have favored an increase in brain size and a delay in adulthood, allowing us both to learn more in childhood and to have ...

How much do you know about evolution? Take this quiz to find out. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. First proposed by Charles ...

Interestingly, this fossil fills a 70-million-year-long gap in our knowledge between the early bird-like dinosaurs ...

The brains of today's birds facilitate a level of cognitive prowess and behavioral complexity rivaled only by mammals. But ...

Distrust in science and facts has always been around. Whether it was the debate about evolution or the age of the Earth, when science and belief are in conflict, people tend to lean into discrediting ...

Evolution had usually been thought of in reference to earthbound processes. (It still is, in most cases.) But today, we can consider how a near-miss asteroid and a possible ring around Earth ...

He can speak to the media about topics tied to human evolution, including evolutionary adaptation and the evolutionary processes that lead to genetic disease. Gokcumen’s research examines the role ...

Members of the community turned out to an event aimed at raising awareness about the signs of stroke and the importance of ...