Evolution

An analysis of the 1.5 million-year-old cranium DAN5/P1, found at the Gona site in Ethiopia, has cranial cranial morphology which indicates that it belongs to the species Homo erectus but near the…

We have a body clock that changes with exposure to sun and a new study finds that while humans don't hibernate, we do sleep longer in the winter.  Researchers recruited 292 patients that…

Giant blue and humpback whales migrate across the ocean to breed and give birth in waters where predators are scarce. A new analysis of the fossil bed in the Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park (BISP) in…

Although neanderthals died out over 40,000 years ago, we are living in an age in which there are more people with their DNA than at any other time in history, with research finding that all modern…

If you get sleepy in the middle of hot days, you are not alone. You are not even alone in the animal kingdom. Biology may be behind it. We know that many people have a harder time sleeping in the…

An experiment found that selfing” monkeyflower plants lost 13 percent to 24 percent of their genetic variation compared to another group that were propagated by bumble bees.  Genetic variation…

Our planet’s origins and its ancient history has fascinated human beings since the dawn of civilization. According to Science Alert, over 35 million years ago, the ancestor of modern cetaceans, i.e…

A recent study describes a new species of vampyropod based on a 328-million-year-old fossil and pushes back the age of the group by nearly 82 million years. And shows that the oldest ancestors of the…

Was Charles Darwin a one-hit wonder? According to scientists who take a gene’s-eye view of evolution, the 19th-century English naturalist contributed one crucial idea to understanding how species…

Over the course of evolutionary history, Greenlanders have benefited from a genetic variation that offers an incredible advantage; two copies of a gene variant make it so that they absorb sugar…