A new suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to ...

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

Until now, it’s been very hard for scientists to establish a detailed timeline of the early evolution of bacteria.

"Our findings challenge conventional views on upper jaw evolution," the researchers said in a statement. Compared with our distant cousins the reptiles, the faces of mammals are made more complex ...

If you’ve taken high school or college biology, you’ve probably been exposed to a good dose of Darwinian evolution. Darwinian theory includes the belief that all living things descended from a small ...

The theory of evolution is dominated by the utilitarian logic of natural selection: adapt or die, survival of the fittest.

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 ...

Tennessee became the first state in the country a hundred years ago to ban the teaching of evolution in public school classrooms.