Evolution is always happening — so why can't we see it? A biologist explains the timescale problem, election pressure, and ...

(Volodymyr Yakimchuk/Creatas Video+/Getty Images Plus) A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have ...

Vision shapes how many animals find food, avoid danger and navigate their world. In animals with two eyes, eye placement is ...

Picture a mouse taking rapid, staccato sniffs of a crumb it's found while foraging for food. Now compare that with a human leaning in for a single, deep inhale to gauge whether a cantaloupe is ripe.

Hundreds of hominin fossils reveal that human body size remained stable for ages before a sharp increase in early members of ...

Is it possible to study the history of viruses that emerged several hundred million years ago? An international team of INRAE ...

Understanding how laughter evolved can reveal the secrets of human speech In a Scientific First, Researchers Recovered ...

For nearly 30 years, a landmark study shaped how scientists understood the relationship between brain and body size in primates. Now, an Oxford evolutionary psychologist who doubted it from the start ...

Scotland's island wrens are quietly breaking the rules of evolution, growing in ways that have stunned researchers and raised ...

Researchers at the Technion have discovered how changes in genetic regulatory sequences can lead to alterations in the form and structure of animals—even when genetic regulatory systems are stable and ...