289-Million-Year-Old Reptile Mummy Reveals Origin of Human Breathing System
A fossilized reptile the size of a small lizard has revealed the oldest known example of rib-driven breathing,…
Why Are 90% Of Humans Right-Handed? An Evolutionary Biologist Explains
Why do 90% of humans reach with the same hand? The answer stretches back millions of years and…
Evolution Doesn’t Care If We Live Past 40
Human aging is not what natural selection failed to prevent. It is what happens when selection simply has…
Museum Fossil Reveals Triassic Crocodile Cousin with Powerful Jaws
CT scans of a decades-old specimen from the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History show a new species…
Redheads are ‘spreading across the globe’ as humans are still evolving | World | News
Britain’s Prince Harry may have done more to boost the profile of redheads than he has for the…
Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution
Some gene variants became consistently more or less frequent over time in ancient human populations — a sign…
Surprise fossil discoveries push back the evolution of complex animals
Artist’s reconstruction of the ancient ocean ecosystem preserved in the Jiangchuan biota Xiaodong Wang A huge and beautifully…
Why Are Humans The Only Animals That Cook Their Food? An Evolutionary Biologist Explains
The human ability to cook may seem ordinary, but it marks one of the most important evolutionary turning…
dissecting the body’s battle to keep selfish genes in check
The Paradox of the Organism: Adaptation and Internal Conflict J. Arvid Ågren and Manus M. Patten (eds) Harvard…
Can species evolve fast enough to survive as the planet heats up?
A cracked riverbed along the Sacramento River during a drought in California Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg via Getty Images For…
Why Don’t Humans Have A Mating Season? An Evolutionary Biologist Explains
Humans don’t have a defined mating season like deer or wolves. Here’s how evolution rewired our reproduction by…
This giant virus hijacks cells’ protein-making machinery to multiply wildly
Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus (artist’s impression) is a giant among viruses, both in physical size and because of the…