Recent fossil discoveries and DNA analyses are transforming our perspective on the history of life on Earth. These findings ...
A new study, published July 6, 2026, in the journal Nature Communications, suggests that two of the best-known trends in ...
The “Frozen Evolution” Myth A popular assumption says medicine, technology, and home comforts have put humanity beyond the ...
A vast stretch of islands across the South Pacific holds one of the oldest human stories on Earth. For tens of thousands of ...
A research team led by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) has revealed how the genome is reorganized in 3D during ...
By tracking neural crest cells in catshark embryos, researchers discovered that the molecular toolkit behind face-building is ...
Why humans have a philtrum, the groove above your lip, explained by an evolutionary biologist — from embryonic face-building ...
How will life on Earth and the ecosystems that support it adapt to climate change? Which species will go extinct – or evolve into something new? How will microbes develop further resistance to ...
We humans have long viewed ourselves as the pinnacle of evolution. People label other species as “primitive” or “ancient” and use terms like “higher” and “lower” animals. This anthropocentric ...
"This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature"--Verso of title page. Outgrowth of and selected papers presented at the 19th Evolutionary Biology Meeting, held in September 2015, in Marseille, ...