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

A new study from Northwestern University is reshaping how scientists think about brain evolution. The research suggests that ...

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

It may have fewer than many of the other sciences, but biology does have two dozen or so “rules”—broad generalizations about ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

The oldest fossilised remains of complex animals appear suddenly in the fossil record, and as if from nowhere, in rocks that ...

Synaptic plasticity allows brains to learn, adapt, and rewire. It’s foundational to memory, problem-solving, and complex ...

The results revealed a clear sequence. Enzymes predating cannabis showed no ability to process CBGA. The first enzyme unique ...

In medicine and biotechnology, the ability to evolve proteins with new or improved functions is crucial, but current methods are often slow and laborious. Now, Scripps Research scientists have ...

Sponges are among Earth's most ancient animals, but exactly when they evolved has long puzzled scientists. Genetic ...

For more than a century, scientists have treated the brain as the undisputed command center of human evolution, with the rest ...