The story of primates is a tale of incredible variety and ancient roots, told through the lens of science, DNA, and time ...

The study, published in Science, reconstructs the family tree of mollusks and provides a genome-based perspective on their ...

Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch followed the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event that killed off non-avian ...

Some scientists compare every single feature of every single organism to try to work out their evolutionary relationships. But, another group of scientists has come up with a more efficient ...

University of Michigan researchers have developed a statistical method that can be used for such wide-ranging applications as tracing your ancestry, modeling disease spread and studying how animals ...

A deep-rooted population structure emerged, suggesting modern humans, Homo sapiens, are the result of a population that split in two about 1.5 million years ago, and then, only 300,000 years ago, ...

Are the bones of several tiny individuals from the island of Flores the newest addition to our family tree, or are they the remains of diseased humans only masquerading as an extinct species?

If you were to categorize these organisms into a family tree, what methods would you ... on earth—and an extraordinary example of evolutionary adaptation. On this site you can find what few ...

Fossils like those from Xujiayao exhibit traits that don’t fit with modern humans, Neanderthals, or Denisovans, hinting at a unique evolutionary lineage in East Asia. Anthropologist John Hawks ...

The hypothalamus is a small but critical region at the base of the brain that controls the autonomic nervous system, ...