Humans lost their ability to synthesize their own vitamin C because our ancestors had access to plenty of fruit.

The study questions the long-held belief that northern Africa became arid around 3 million years ago, which coincides with ...

Scopes trial, in which a Dayton, Tennessee, teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching biological evolution, ...

Worms radically reorganized their genomes during their move from sea to land, supporting the theory of punctuated equilibrium ...

An analysis of a 1.5 million-year-old vertebra from a human relative living in what is now Israel suggests that ancient ...

Scientists reveal that a key evolutionary theory about rapid change is wrong, caused mainly by statistical noise in the data.

The bold question-askers at What If examine how merging with machines could mark the next phase in human evolution.

In 1921, William Bell Riley admonished his opponents that they should “cease from shoveling in dirt on living men,” for the ...

“It may be doubted,” Darwin wrote, “if there are any other animals which have played such an important part in the history of ...

Long known only as the site of Napoleon’s exile, Saint Helena is in fact a sanctuary of rare biodiversity, dramatic ...

FICO CIO Mike Trkay drives innovation with an unusually broad purview, managing technical operations behind ...