“The fact that we can reconstruct events from hundreds of thousands or millions of years ago just by looking at DNA today is astonishing,” stated Aylwyn Scally of Cambridge University. That sums up ...

The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe. Using advanced analysis based ...

Ancient DNA reveals how farming accelerated human evolution, driving genetic changes over the past 10,000 years.

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, finds that changes in animal development induced by climate shock persist ...

Scientists and reef managers are calling for ‘assisted evolution’ to help accelerate coral reef adaptation in the face of ...

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution generated scientific debate and discussion not only in Darwin's own time, but for decades afterward. In the latter part of the nineteenth century and the until the ...

An international research team analyzed 232 whole genomes from both savanna and forest elephants, collected across 17 African ...

When you think about evolution, what comes to mind? Certainly, things like opposable thumbs are one factor here; so too is ...