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 ...

The scientific wonderers at What If fast-forward through millions of years of primate development to show the path that led ...

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

Humans evolved large brains and flat faces at a surprisingly rapid pace compared to other apes, likely reflecting the evolutionary advantages of these traits, finds a new analysis of ape skulls by UCL ...

The human body is full of evolutionary compromises. The loss of the tail may be one of the clearest examples of how change ...

Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate. Researchers have identified a genetic variant that contributed to the ...

New research is significantly revising a widely cited evolutionary model, the Inhibitory Cascade Mode (ICM). Benjamin Auerbach, professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the ...

Introduction / Janet Browne -- The fetus, the fish heart and the fruit fly : a reflection on Darwin's chapter 1. The evidence of the descent of man from some lower form / Alice Roberts -- Remarkable, ...