A new study posits that same-sex sexual behavior developed to help primates in complex social groups ease tension, reduce ...

Songbirds on the UCLA campus changed beak shapes during the pandemic, according to a new study. Researchers suspect it might be a case of rapid evolution.

The missing link in the mystery turned out to be an event called the Cambrian explosion. It was only after it that living ...

It all began with a bold question: What if evolution could be simulated in a lab? At the intersection of artificial ...

A large-scale population genomic study has shed new light on the evolutionary and domestication history of the button ...

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

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

A long-disputed rule in biology says bigger is better, but a new computer model illuminates why that’s not necessarily true. By Lauren Leffer Published Jan 18, 2024 11:45 AM EST Get the Popular ...

A groundbreaking study has found that evolution is not as unpredictable as previously thought, which could allow scientists to explore which genes could be useful to tackle real-world issues such as ...

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