Million-Year-Old Cambrian Fossils Indicate Earliest Known Example of Predator-Prey 'Arms Race' Scientists have found evidence ...

An international team of scientists has uncovered a fascinating piece of the evolutionary puzzle: how the ventral nerve cord, a key component of the central nervous system, evolved in ecdysozoan ...

Ants learn from past encounters, showing more aggression toward familiar aggressive rivals and less toward passive ones. This ...

An international team of scientists has uncovered a fascinating piece of the evolutionary puzzle: how the ventral nerve cord, ...

Many people hold the view that evolution in modern humans has come ... phenotypes that we associate with geographic regions—for example, dark skin in Africans, light skin in Scandinavians ...

School of Life Sciences and Medicine, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo, Shandong, China The L. japonicus used in this study was a biennial variety, collected in the field in Zibo, Shandong ...

This is the process of evolution in its simplest form ... one direction toward “higher” or “better” organisms. For example, Rudolph Zallinger’s famous 1965 Time-Life illustration ...

The longer duration of gene flow may help explain, for example, why East Asians have about 20% more Neanderthal genes than Europeans and West Asians. If modern humans moved eastward about 47,000 years ...

Taxonomic disagreement over the classification of our species and Neanderthals offer a prime example of oversimplified expectations ... However, to reliably trace modern human evolution, ...