Five major discoveries from 2021 are presented as milestones in human evolution research: the oldest figurative cave art in ...

In tropical climates, lizards are everywhere. It can be a bit wild to see, and they come in all shapes and sizes. They seem a tad superfluous in such large varieties leaving one to wonder, what ...

The study blends math, statistics and biology to show that this long-held hyperbolic pattern is an anomaly because it doesn't account for the fact that all species on earth are defined as much by ...

For decades, researchers have observed that rates of evolution seem to accelerate over short time periods – say five million years versus fifty million years. This broad pattern has suggested that ...

Researchers have demonstrated that the capacity for rapid adaptation within a few generations, known as evolvability, can also explain species divergence over millions of years. By analyzing extensive ...

Darwin noted how different finches from the Galapagos Island developed different kinds of beaks, based on the food that they specialized in eating. Later studies showed how rapid fluctuations in seed ...

The Natural History Museum’s collections are helping scientists to get a handle on how evolution works. The digitisation of thousands of bird specimens is being used to try and explain some of the ...

In the first study to measure how fast large-scale evolution can occur in mammals, scientists have calculated that it takes 24 million generations for a mouse-sized animal to evolve to the size of an ...

This year—2021—has been a year of progress in overcoming the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on human evolution research. With some research projects around the world back up and running, we wanted ...