This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

A major evolutionary theory says most genetic changes don’t really matter, but new evidence suggests that’s not true. Researchers found that helpful mutations happen surprisingly often. The twist is ...

The pelvis is often called the keystone of upright movement. It helps explain how human ancestors left life on all fours ...

Environmental change doesn’t affect evolution in a single, predictable way. In large-scale computer simulations, scientists ...

A new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep's core functions originated hundreds of millions of years ago in ...

A reduced genome in an island species raises evolutionary questions.

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

In the mice with large-brain primate microbes, the researchers found increased expression of genes associated with energy ...

The researchers think the pattern they observed in ants reflects a more universal trend in the evolution of societal ...