The uvula is nearly unique to humans among mammals. An evolutionary biologist unpacks competing theories for why we evolved ...

Adam Rutherford salutes a show that finally links the spectacle of natural history with the science that explains it ...

New research challenges the idea that self-fertilization is an evolutionary dead end and points to a more complex story.

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Why humans have a philtrum, the groove above your lip, explained by an evolutionary biologist — from embryonic face-building ...

A research team led by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) has revealed how the genome is reorganized in 3D during ...

Recent fossil discoveries and DNA analyses are transforming our perspective on the history of life on Earth. These findings ...

Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences has officially voted to change the name of the Human Evolutionary Biology concentration during a meeting on April 1. Effective as of July 1, 2025 — when the ...

Charles Darwin said that evolution was constantly happening, causing animals to adapt for survival. But many of his contemporaries disagreed. If evolution is always causing things to change, they ...

We humans have long viewed ourselves as the pinnacle of evolution. People label other species as “primitive” or “ancient” and use terms like “higher” and “lower” animals. This anthropocentric ...

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