Scientists reveal that a key evolutionary theory about rapid change is wrong, caused mainly by statistical noise in the data.

A new breakdown of earthworm DNA could help us better understand how evolution works, and it could prove Darwin completely ...

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What if dinosaurs never went extinct? The concept of 'Dinosauroids' imagines an alternate evolutionary path where intelligent ...

Darwin imagined evolution as a slow, gradual progress, with species accumulating small changes over time. But even he was ...

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Evolution season 3 was not stingy with cryptic symbols. One of the more unsettling moments was the sudden drop of an unadorned white mask onto the BAU, leaving not only questions regarding where it ...

Worms radically reorganized their genomes during their move from sea to land, supporting the theory of punctuated equilibrium ...

“It may be doubted,” Darwin wrote, “if there are any other animals which have played such an important part in the history of ...

Our brains are designed to misjudge reality. Evolution favors survival over truth, leading to predictable errors in ...

University of Auckland evolutionary biologist and his colleagues applied a probabilistic model to three cases of evolution: cephalopods (including octopuses, squids, cuttlefish, and vampire ...

We looked at fossil teeth from hominins (humans and our closest extinct relatives) from the Omo Valley in Ethiopia, where we can see traces of more than two million years of human evolution, as well ...