Climate change over the past two million years has boosted human evolution by forcing us to adapt to changing conditions and allowing us to migrate to new areas. Researchers found that far from ...

The Kansas state school board Tuesday approved new, multistate science standards for public schools that treat both evolution and climate change as key concepts to be taught from kindergarten through ...

Early human evolution was driven by short pulses of rapid environmental change in East Africa, according to new research from academics at UCL and The University of Manchester. The study, which is ...

Climate change may be on everyone’s lips since the recent UN report, but don’t let that fool you. The shifts in climate we’re beginning to see are nothing new, as far as Earth — or our ancestors — are ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A Christian curriculum used by at least 11 schools rubbishes the theory of evolution and denies climate change. Researchers say it could make students susceptible to believing conspiracy theories and ...

The early landscape shifted between woodland to grassland half a dozen times over 200,000 years, meaning man had to adapt to survive. Experts from Penn State university say that this may have set the ...

Humans evolved their very large brains in response to the dramatic shifts in the climate of East Africa, the cradle of humanity where man's ancestors are thought to have originated about two million ...

In the 1830s Charles Darwin visited the Galapagos islands in the Pacific Ocean. He studied the unique animals living on the islands. Darwin's trip led him to the theory of evolution. In today's ...

For some filmmakers, climate change is now the equivalent of the nuclear scares of the mid-20th century As we have begun to see the effects of climate change more severely, more frequently and closer ...