Some ants thrive by choosing numbers over strength. Instead of heavily protecting each worker, they invest fewer resources in ...
Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But the face staring back is complicating scientists' understanding of early ...
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 ...
Why did humans evolve the eyes we have today? While scientists can't go back in time to study the environmental pressures ...
If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...
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One hundred years ago, a small town in eastern Tennessee captured the attention of the entire country. A biology teacher in Dayton was accused of teaching human evolution to his students — which was ...