This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

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.

Environmental change doesn’t affect evolution in a single, predictable way. In large-scale computer simulations, scientists ...

It may have fewer than many of the other sciences, but biology does have two dozen or so “rules”—broad generalizations about ...

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 ...

The researchers think the pattern they observed in ants reflects a more universal trend in the evolution of societal ...