Why does hitting your funny bone feel like an electric shock rather than a bruise? An evolutionary biologist explains the ...

That V-shaped hairline isn't the simple dominant gene textbooks describe — it traces to embryonic eye position. Here's what ...

Every time a virus invades a person, it collides with thousands of years of human history. A study led by researchers at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and Howard University ...

Evolution is a fact of life. So much so that even the theory of evolution is evolving. Lately, a centuries-old discredited ...

Mauricio González-Forero, an evolutionary biologist at the University of St Andrews, in the U.K., is proposing a new theory to explain the massive growth of the human brain over its evolutionary ...

The head of the Arizona Cancer Evolution Center proposes fighting tumor resistance with adaptive therapy: administering drugs ...

The islands are volcanic in origin and were never attached to any continent. Galápagos wildlife arrived by flying, floating or swimming. Birds might have flown there by accident and decided to settle ...

Adam Rutherford salutes a show that finally links the spectacle of natural history with the science that explains it ...

Metropolitan Touring, in partnership with the Charles Darwin Foundation (CDF), has announced that it will be offering a ...

Evolutionary biologists Peter and Rosemary Grant are headlining a conservation cruise in the Galápagos Islands. The seven-day, six-night charity charter, which departs October 30, is being offered by ...

An updated evolutionary model shows that living systems evolve in a split-and-hit-the-gas dynamic, where new lineages appear in sudden bursts rather than during a long marathon of gradual changes.