(Volodymyr Yakimchuk/Creatas Video+/Getty Images Plus) A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have ...

Deep within the dark caves of northeastern Mexico lives a fish that has spent hundreds of thousands of years adapting to a ...

A debate has been raging among planetary scientists for more than a decade—why are there so few exoplanets with a radius of ...

In his 1989 book Wonderful Life, the late Harvard scientist Stephen Jay Gould imagined rewinding life’s history to an early ...

Astronomers have revealed new details about how young stars shape their galactic surroundings in a new study. Researchers analyzed about 18,000 star-forming regions in nearby spiral galaxies using ...

A groundbreaking study has found that evolution is not as unpredictable as previously thought, which could allow scientists to explore which genes could be useful to tackle real-world issues such as ...

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

As the centennial of the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 approaches, a new study illustrates that the attitudes of Americans in Generation X toward evolution shifted as they aged. As the centennial of the ...