For more than a century, biologists assumed that the bony plates embedded in the skin of lizards – like natural chain mail – ...
This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...
Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in ...
New research explains how dust links the formation, evolution, and fate of stars and planets, and why future telescopes are needed to observe these processes in detail ...
A groundbreaking study has found that evolution is not as unpredictable as previously thought, which could allow scientists to explore which genes could be useful to tackle real-world issues such as ...
Cultural evolution describes how socially learned ideas, rules, and skills are transmitted and change over time, giving rise to diverse forms of social organization, belief systems, languages, ...