The theory of evolution by natural selection was first formulated in Darwin’s book “On the Origin of Species” in 1859. It describes how organisms change over time as a result of changes in heritable ...

Are humans evolving more through culture than DNA? A new study explores how medicine, technology, and institutions may guide ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift — driven not by genes, but by culture. Cultural practices — from farming ...

While developing his theory of natural selection, Charles Darwin was horrified by a group of wasps that lay their eggs within ...

But Beekman, along with a growing number of scholars, many of them women, emphasizes familial care in our understanding of ...

Global cooling associated with the impact of supernova remnants may have affected plants and animals, including species ...

Human evolution has often been depicted as a process of adaptation, where natural selection and genetic changes drive species ...

ABC’s High Potential was one of last season’s earliest breakout hits, and from the moment it wrapped in May, fans have been ...

Japanese researchers won the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize for painting cows with zebra-like stripes to avoid being bitten by flies.

Francis Thackeray has received funding from the National Research Foundation. Global cooling that happened millions of years ago was thought to be the result of ocean currents. He suggests instead it ...

Bizarrely, Iberian harvester ant queens lay eggs that turn into male builder harvester ants, and some of her offspring are ...