Evolution is traditionally associated with a process of increasing complexity and gaining new genes. However, the explosion of the genomic era shows that gene loss and simplification is a much more ...

An international research team has described a newly discovered algae species Streptofilum arcticum and its cell functions ...

German pig skulls changed significantly due to selective breeding. Scientists found shorter snouts and flatter foreheads in ...

Researchers Unearth 420-Million-Year-Old ‘Living Fossil’ Fish Species, Helped Them to Connect Human Evolution Analysis of 420-million-year-old Coelacanths fossils in Western Australia has provided ...

On Darwin Day, 12 February 2025, the Darwin Online project at the National University of Singapore (NUS) launches the largest ...

Short snouts and a flat profile - within a span of 100 years, humans have significantly changed the shape of the skulls of ...

More than a decade after his 'Origin of Species', Darwin found courage to publish ideas he had once only hinted at. In 'The Descent of Man' he presented an unequivocal account of human evolution.

A new study explores how complex chemical mixtures change under shifting environmental conditions, shedding light on the ...

Researchers discovered how genetic switches shaped human brain evolution by fine-tuning shared gene expression.

Scientists say the crustaceans have developed a visual system based on proteins that help them detect the little light that ...