A new study theorizes that evolution ticks at different speeds, especially when a big group of organisms first appears.

Humans influence the evolution of plants and animals. Sometimes actively, sometimes indirectly. The case of the Tube mosquito ...

A reduced genome in an island species raises evolutionary questions.

An international research team using China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope has found some of the ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

When you learned about the history of human evolution in school, there's a good chance you were shown one all-too-familiar image. That picture probably showed a conga line of human-like creatures, ...