A new study theorizes that evolution ticks at different speeds, especially when a big group of organisms first appears.

This rainforest tree solved one of evolution’s hardest problems. Here’s how it evolved to use tension and geometry to fire ...

A reduced genome in an island species raises evolutionary questions.

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

Quick Take Reaching a size 5 times larger than males is a biological benchmark for breeding females. Holding breath for 10 ...

The conservation of genome regulatory elements over long periods of evolution is not limited to vertebrates, as previously ...

Learn how jellyfish and sea anemones are changing what we know about the evolutionary purpose of sleep.

Evolutionary biochemistry aims to dissect the evolutionary processes and physical mechanisms by which biological molecules diversified and to reveal how their physical architecture facilitates and ...

The proposal that evolution could be used as a metaphor for problem solving came with the invention of the computer 1. In the 1970s and 1980s the principal idea was developed into different ...

Evolution determines who lives, who dies, and who passes traits on to the next generation. The process plays a critical role in our daily lives, yet it is one of the most overlooked -- and ...

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 ...