Modern humans and great apes may have been laughing for at least 15 million years. The findings, published today in the journal Communications Biology, shed new light on how our speech evolved. “How ...

Long before vertebrates walked on land, millipedes had the place to themselves. Hundreds of millions of years before ...

Citizen science data from the popular platform iNaturalist has helped uncover the evolution of parental guarding behavior in ...

New evidence published today in the journal Science upends decades of evolutionary theory about when animals first walked on ...

Spanish biologist Ignacio Paulin became fascinated by the behavior of these fish, in a project that could now disappear due ...

To better understand the circadian clock in modern-day cyanobacteria, a research team has studied ancient timekeeping systems. They examined the oscillation of the clock proteins KaiA, KaiB, and KaiC ...

A new study from the University of Michigan suggests that organisms could get better at evolving over time. Researchers used a computer program to simulate organisms switching between beneficial and ...

THE VENN DIAGRAM ILLUSTRATES THE COMPONENTS OF VARIATION PARTITIONING WITHIN A PHYLOGENETIC GENERALIZED LINEAR MODEL (PGLM). THE LARGE OUTER CIRCLE REPRESENTS THE TOTAL VARIATION IN THE RESPONSE ...

Can a snake in Thailand influence the evolution of a snake in the Philippines even if the two species never cross paths?

Andy Weir, perhaps best-known for his now-classic science fiction book-turned-movie The Martian, has produced another fantastical and deeply science-based book in Project Hail Mary. This book, which ...

Evolutionary psychology is known for dark parts of our nature, like homicide. But it also explains prosocial behaviors, like ...