Though natural selection favours self-interest, humans are extraordinarily good at cooperating with one another. Why?

Throughout the Sharjah Biennial, works are described using politicized language that highlights the vast social and environmental ideas tackled.

In the spirit of “everything is connected,” a new study found that the extinction of the dinosaurs paved the way for the emergence of fruit, which nourished our primate ancestors. Tapping into this ...

A new study by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology (MPI-EB) sheds fresh light on one of the most ...

A recent paper provides an updated perspective on the evolutionary history of chelicerates—a diverse and ecologically ...

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

Arachnid evolution involved multiple land transitions, not just one. Spiders and scorpions evolved key traits through gene ...

Jurassic bird fossil discovery of a species named Baminornis zhenghensis pushes bird evolution timeline back 20 million years ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to a new model for how intelligent life developed on Earth.

Fossils of the world’s oldest megaraptorid and the first-ever carcharodontosaurs in Australia have been discovered, ...

In a new study published in Science, a Belgian research team explores how genetic switches controlling gene activity define brain cell types across species.