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Human evolution might be more "bizarre" than we once thought, according to a new study. In the past, scientists believed that hominin evolution was largely driven by changes in climate. But now, ...

The story of Charles Darwin’s life. His theory of evolution changed the way we understood our place in the world.

A new study co-authored by researchers at Indiana University sheds light on how the forces that shape mountain ranges also influence the evolution of species. In the study, "Direct effects of mountain ...

New plankton arrived just a few millennia — maybe even decades — after the Chicxulub asteroid, forcing a rethink of evolution ...

A search for a fish lost to extinction led to a brand-new species hiding in a South African river.

A University of Melbourne researcher has spotted a rare evolutionary phenomenon happening rapidly in real time in bats living in the Solomon Islands. Dr Tyrone Lavery reports in a paper published in ...

FISH copy 39088007842362 has bookplate: Gift of Suzanne Ripley. STRIMAIN copy 39088015885700 has bookplate: Gift of Neal G. Smith. Contents Evolutionary biology -- Species concepts and their ...

City lights are reshaping ecosystems on the coast by separating nearly identical sea species based on brightness rather than ...