Today (May 22) is United Nations International Day for Biological Diversity, drawing attention to a critical resource for ...

Even tiny muscles around the ears hint at our evolutionary past. In many mammals, tiny ear muscles allow the outer ear (pinna ...

Different beak and jaw shapes are illustrative examples of how animal species have adapted to different food sources. In a ...

Potatoes are a common staple in Peru. (maphke/iStock/Getty Images) For all humanity's success as a species at the top of its game, it's likely that we'll never finish evolving. From passive selection ...

Natural selection is an important evolutionary force that enables humans to adapt to new environments and fight disease-causing pathogens. However, the unique footprints of natural selection in our ...

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 ...

Review of How Men Age: What Evolution Reveals About Male Health and Mortality. By Richard G. Bribiescas. Princeton University Press. 177 pp. $24.95 Although he and his wife eat similar foods, jog, are ...

In this episode of Tiny Show and Tell Us, we discuss the differences between e-cigarettes (vapes) and far-less-studied dry herb vaporizers. Then we talk about some of the incredible evolutionary ...

You idly pluck at your plate of scrambled eggs as one apocalyptic tableau after another slides down the screen of your phone.

Now a new study published in the journal PLOS Biology examines this question further by investigating the genomes of species ...