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

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

Romanes would of course maintain the continuity and identity of the process of mental evolution from its first obscure manifestations in the lower grades of animals up to its highest present point ...

We are exploring the role of hydrothermal vents in driving the evolution of novel adaptations in deep-sea animals, throughout the 500+ million year history of complex life on our planet. In many parts ...

PROBLEMS of fluctuation in numbers in animal populations are of direct interest ... and to students of evolution. Theoretical research on these problems is visualized by the author mainly as ...

But that does not mean humankind is not experiencing evolution at all. Orangutans are our closest relatives in the animal kingdom, per the National Institutes of Health report, and even within the ...

Evolutionary biologist Nathan H. Lents details how animal relationships can offer perspective on sexual diversity, social monogamy and gender identity—for humans.

The discovery of a billion-year-old fossil in Scotland offers exciting new insight into animal evolution, BC researcher says Loch Torridon in Scotland, where the microfossil was discovered. Photo: ...

"Nilpena is perhaps the best fossil site for understanding early animal evolution in the world because the fossils occur during a period of heightened diversity and we are able to excavate ...

Scientists have unraveled the evolutionary history of the ventral nerve cord in ecdysozoan animals, revealing that the common ancestor likely possessed a single ventral nerve cord. Paired nerve ...

But male flies, in turn, have sharpened their eyesight to call their bluff. A new study suggests that this is an ongoing evolution where both sexes ...

New research shows that ancient humans, Australopithecus, had a plant-based diet, challenging long-held meat-eating theories.