A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

A major evolutionary theory says most genetic changes don’t really matter, but new evidence suggests that’s not true. Researchers found that helpful mutations happen surprisingly often. The twist is ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

Until not that long ago, scientists widely agreed on the evolutionary journey that plants took from the oceans to the land. They thought that algae evolved into mosses and their relatives, known as ...

A 3.8-million-year-old hominin fossil reveals what the cranium of the oldest known Australopithecus species looked like, casting doubt on assumptions about how these ancient relatives of humans ...

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 ...

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Discover interesting facts about how evolution works, the different patterns that can emerge from evolution, how quickly organisms can evolve, and whether evolution is a random or ordered process When ...

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From walking trees to floating toads, the far future of nature on our planet could be like nothing we’ve seen before. In the early 1980s, the author Dougal Dixon published a cult book called After Man ...