Why do 90% of humans reach with the same hand? The answer stretches back millions of years and involves fossils, language and ...

The study of early vertebrates provides an essential window into the evolutionary processes that shaped modern biodiversity. Fossil discoveries spanning the Silurian to Devonian periods reveal a ...

The evolutionary case for eating meat is etched into human anatomy — but so is the case against it. The science deserves more ...

Tree thinking is a pedagogical approach that emphasises the interpretation and construction of phylogenetic trees to elucidate evolutionary relationships. In the context of evolutionary biology ...

Scientists have developed a theoretical model that uncovers the dual role of polyploidy -- organisms carrying extra genome copies -- in evolution. Their findings reveal that polyploidy can stabilize ...

Why do humans fear the dark? How can the science of evolutionary biology explain this primitive instinct? Fear of the dark, ...

The study blends math, statistics and biology to show that this long-held hyperbolic pattern is an anomaly because it doesn't account for the fact that all species on earth are defined as much by ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Human newborns arrive remarkably underdeveloped. The reason lies in a deep evolutionary ...

A yellow band across a wing might look like a simple flourish. In the South American rainforest, it can mean survival. Across butterflies and a day-flying moth that split from one another tens of ...

Harvard’s Human Evolutionary Biology concentration may soon be known by a different name. In an email to concentrators, Ashley Johnson, the HEB undergraduate program coordinator, wrote that the ...

The Templeton Prize honours those who harness the power of the sciences to explore the deepest questions of the universe and ...