Selective breeding over the past century has shortened and flattened the snouts of German domestic pigs. Though not an ...

In this episode of Weekly podcast, we speak to three experts who study different ways that people are affecting how plants and animals evolve – and how humanity has become the single biggest driver of ...

“Sometimes redundancy has a way of showing up under certain conditions; they’re not truly redundant,” said Michael Snyder, ...

The story of human evolution in ancient past is said to be written in our modern bodies. In his book “Descent of Man,” Charles Darwin talks about vestigial structures. A vestigial structure is a body ...

Two new studies have found eerily human-like sophistication in whale songs, challenging notions about our exceptionality and ...

The Wallace Line divides species in Southeast Asia. A deep ocean trench prevents animal migration. Even flying birds rarely ...

The phrase "survival of the fittest" functions principally in evolutionary theory to describe the biological concept of natural selection.

A team of mathematicians and statisticians from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, the University of Tennessee and ...

New theory proposes that humans — and analogous ... biological and planetary evolution UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome ...

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

Explore how birds independently developed complex brain circuits, challenging beliefs about brain evolution and ancestry.