Our bones did not begin deep inside the body. They started in the skin, not long after the first complex animals took shape.

A new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep's core functions originated hundreds of millions of years ago in ...

A reduced genome in an island species raises evolutionary questions.

For more than a century, biologists assumed that the bony plates embedded in the skin of lizards – like natural chain mail – ...

Learn how jellyfish and sea anemones are changing what we know about the evolutionary purpose of sleep.

Probably every organism has evolved to do everything possible to maximise acquiring and storing resources, explains one ...

The rapid evolution of many pathogens, particularly RNA viruses, means that their evolution and ecology occur on the same timescale, and therefore must be studied jointly to be fully understood. The ...

The proposal that evolution could be used as a metaphor for problem solving came with the invention of the computer 1. In the 1970s and 1980s the principal idea was developed into different ...

Joseph L. Graves Jr. offers a memoir and more in ‘A Voice in the Wilderness’ It’s both good and bad that the first Black American to earn a Ph.D. in evolutionary biology is not a long-ago hidden ...

Who Is the High Evolutionary in Marvel Comics? 1966’s Thor #133 marks the first reference to the High Evolutionary in Marvel Comics. He would make his debut on the page in the very next issue, which ...