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 ...

Evolution is traditionally associated with a process of increasing complexity and gaining new genes. However, the explosion of the genomic era shows that gene loss and simplification is a much more ...

Fossils are used to reconstruct evolutionary history, but not all animals and plants become fossils and many fossils are destroyed before we can find them (e.g., the rocks that contain the fossils are ...

This is one of the weirdest mysteries of human evolution: Why do we have grandmas? From menopause to our slow maturation and super-long lifespans, humans are quite unique in the animal kingdom. Could ...

Joseph L. Graves Jr. offers a memoir and more in ‘A Voice in the Wilderness’ It’s both good and bad that the first Black American to earn a Ph.D. in evolutionary biology is not a long-ago hidden ...

The final film in James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy brought us back to the start of Rocket’s story. His transformation from a normal baby raccoon into a cybernetically-enhanced super genius ...