There's no question that humans have left an indelible mark on the world, but we're also inadvertently steering the evolution ...

University of California, RiversideMany experts didn’t think such tiny prehistoric fossils would ever be found. Fortunately, ...

As a philosopher and artist who's interested in aesthetics and biology, I recently wrote about the evolution of behaviors in ...

Evolution is nature's engine, driving and shaping genetic change and the diversity around us. Charles Darwin famously ...

I study the evolution of the human genome and some of our unique genes that make us distinct from our closest relatives. But in my teaching as well as most of my writing, I emphasize how much we have ...

Genetic structure clearly influences the evolution of animal sociality. But do genes themselves influence an individual’s altruistic behavior? As new genomic tools become available, one of the ...

All animal evolution for the last half billion years has come from tinkering with these Cambrian body plans. Then, between about 570 and 530 million years ago, another burst of diversification ...

Animal lookalikes showcase the fascinating ways in which species can evolve similar traits in response to their environments.

An interdisciplinary team explores the cognitive underpinnings of such cross-species collaborations, opening up a new perspective on the evolution of intelligence and cooperation in the animal ...