Evolution, a new five-part series tells the extraordinary story of how life on Earth has changed over more than four billion ...

A new study, published July 6, 2026, in the journal Nature Communications, suggests that two of the best-known trends in ...

Evolution is always happening — so why can't we see it? A biologist explains the timescale problem, election pressure, and ...

(Volodymyr Yakimchuk/Creatas Video+/Getty Images Plus) A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have brought us to a major turning point in our evolutionary journey. According ...

A vast stretch of islands across the South Pacific holds one of the oldest human stories on Earth. For tens of thousands of ...

Hundreds of hominin fossils reveal that human body size remained stable for ages before a sharp increase in early members of ...

For nearly 30 years, a landmark study shaped how scientists understood the relationship between brain and body size in primates. Now, an Oxford evolutionary psychologist who doubted it from the start ...

Mollusks have produced many evolutionary innovations since they first appeared 540 million years ago, including spiral shells and a toothed tongue. A new study shows that about half of these ...