While developing his theory of natural selection, Charles Darwin was horrified by a group of wasps that lay their eggs within ...

F or the past century and a half, the concept of evolution has primarily been wielded by those describing change of a purely biological nature. But according to ecologist Mark Vellend, this sort of ...

The evolutionary blueprint for hands was borrowed in part from a much older genetic plan for our nether regions, a new study ...

Hamilton's rule, introduced in the 1960s, says that altruism—helping others at your own expense—can evolve when the benefits ...

Dated to about 108 million years ago, the fossil preserves roughly 90 percent of the skeleton, including the first ...

Directed evolution is usually a laborious process that often takes weeks in which proteins rapidly evolve and develop ...

A newly discovered dinosaur species has been identified from a fossil unearthed in Mongolia that represents the most complete ...

You’ve seen the memes—“everything will eventually evolve into a crab” or “crab is the ideal form”—while scrolling online. These are parodies of a real scientific concept, carcinization. In biology, ...

Late-stage planetary collisions reshaped Earth and its neighboring planets, delivering water, altering their atmospheres, and ...