The domestication of dogs began around 15,000 years ago, when wolves first started to be domesticated by humans. It is believed that early humans tamed wolves and eventually bred them to create the ...

Charles Darwin encountered a tiny fox-like creature during his famous voyage. Charles Darwin encountered a tiny fox-like creature during his famous voyage but instead of discovering its fascinating ...

Evolution is incredibly diverse, but at the same time super limited. All species must honor basic physics and unassailable biological limits (we’ll never see, for example, an animal with wheels… or at ...

Why does natural selection appear to happen slowly on long timescales and quickly on short ones? A multigenerational study of four lizard species addresses biology’s “paradox of stasis.” James Stroud ...

Evolution is perhaps the most extraordinary story ever told—a tale spanning billions of years that connects every living thing on Earth through an intricate web of shared ancestry. From the tiniest ...

A new study reveals the surprisingly convergent evolution in the inner ear of mammals. An international research team led by Nicole Grunstra from the University of Vienna and Anne Le Maître from the ...

Microbes are usually invisible to our naked eye, but they surprisingly play significant roles in shaping the world around us. These tiny organisms are known to adapt, mutate, and evolve in incredible ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1950 the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi was discussing the possibility of intelligent alien life with his colleagues. If alien ...

Evolution is something many people visualize as a process that occurs outside, in your surroundings, but it also happens in the environment of the human body. SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is a clear example ...