We typically think of evolution as progressing in one direction, with a species getting “better” and “better” as it goes. But ...

"Evolution is part deterministic—there are rules for how systems evolve—and part random—mutations and environmental changes are primarily unpredictable," Thomas Mailund, an associate ...

Evolution is the incremental changes in DNA over time, and it can evolve into new species because of that adaptation to a new environment. Right, I think I understand the process, ...

Learn all about the scientist Charles Darwin and his theories of evolution with these interactive learning resources for KS2 Science students aged 7-11 from BBC Bitesize.

Human evolution: Facts about the past 300,000 years of Homo sapiens 'Statistically, that shouldn’t have happened': Something very weird occurred in the ocean after the dinosaur-killing asteroid hit; ...

The turn of the next millennium is still a long way off, but that hasn’t stopped scientists from simulating what future human evolution might look like when the year 3000 hits. The result? A ...

South Africa has one of the world's richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many ...