Modern birds evolved from ground-dwelling reptiles as their increasingly refined parenting skills led them into the trees, where they could better protect their young, proposes a researcher at the ...

Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping ...

Yet modern biology has revealed that cells are preternaturally sophisticated assemblages — literally automated, miniaturized factories. How could the evidence have been overwhelming but now orthodoxy ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. The 2001 discovery of the seven million-year-old Sahelanthropus, the first known upright ape-like creatures, was ...

For a long time, evolutionary biologists have thought that the genetic mutations that drive the evolution of genes and proteins are largely neutral: they're neither good nor bad, but just ordinary ...

Last month, President Bush said that it would be a good idea if something called "intelligent design" were taught along with the theory of evolution. That way, children would be exposed to "different ...

AMHERST, Mass. (StudyFinds.org) – A new study is suggesting that a particular factor can determine whether someone holds racist or prejudice attitudes — their belief in the theory of evolution.

The varied sex lives of a type of green algae have enabled a researcher to test a theory of why there are males and females. The varied sex lives of a type of green algae have enabled a University of ...