Head lice, fleas and tapeworms have been humanity’s companions throughout our evolutionary history. Yet, the greatest ...

On the whole, Catholics in 1925 had little problem with the teaching of evolution. Most likely due to the teaching of Pope ...

Cancer does not develop overnight. It can take decades for cancer‐promoting changes in the genome to eventually lead to the ...

Measuring shells and skeletons encased in thousands of limestone samples has revealed that the sheer amount of living stuff ...

Researchers from the University of Sydney have developed a system that mimics natural selection inside living mammalian cells ...

People often consider evolution to be a process that occurs in nature in the background of human society. But evolution is ...

The being in question is a microbe called Sukunaarchaeum mirabile. Preliminary research says it stretches the definition of ...

In the vast and often unseen world of microscopic life, a recent discovery may force scientists to rethink what it means to ...

Humans change the urban landscape with religious, cultural and political activities, which in turn can influence the ...

The downstream consequences of religion, politics and war can have far-reaching effects on the environment and on the ...

Two life forms living together helped spark the evolution of all complex life. By learning to appreciate this process more ...

The distribution of living species on Earth follows a surprisingly simple logic. An international study reveals that biodiversity systematically organizes itself around rich central zones before ...