The field of evolution examines how organisms adapt to their environments over generations, but what about the evolution of ...

“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to ...

A new scientific theory counters the 'hard steps' theory by suggesting that the emergence of Homo sapiens and similar ...

A new theory suggests windows of opportunity, not a series of improbable events may have helped humans gain a foothold in the ...

2023 — Scientists should seek answers hidden in the dirt using proven and state-of-the-art archaeological science techniques to support new discoveries about human evolution following recent ...

The study titled "Chromosome-scale genome dynamics reveal signatures of independent haplotype evolution in the ancient asexual mite Platynothrus peltifer" was published in Science Advances ... to ...

Scientists found that evolution led bird and mammal brains to evolve separately, using different genetic instructions.

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

On Darwin Day, 12 February 2025, the Darwin Online project at the National University of Singapore (NUS) launches the largest ...

including from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), has answers. Their mathematical model forecasts the ideal body plan of a fruit fly's early embryo, suggesting that evolution ...

Their findings have been published in the journal Royal Society Open Science. The researchers analysed ... how strongly humans can influence the evolution of animals. "Charles Darwin assumed ...