An English zoologist, he wrote an immensely popular 1967 book arguing that ancient genes, shared with apes, shape our lives.

Paleocanna tentaculum’ was more closely related to today’s marine invertebrates than its prehistoric relatives.

Evolution isn’t a single, straightforward process – it works in several distinct ways. From species splitting apart over time ...

By the time you tell yourself there’s nothing in the dark alley, your amygdala has already disagreed. Here’s why, according ...

University of Iowa researchers have found that, when placed in a stable environment, pigeons don’t fall into repetition in ...

A new study finds natural selection has reshaped hundreds of human genes in the past 10,000 years, driven by farming, disease ...

The idea behind this claim is that once humans achieved large enough brains and developed sophisticated cultures, cultural ...

Some large marine fish are known to seek out distinct “cleaning stations” where smaller fish and shrimp eat dead skin ...

Juvenile tomato clownfish are brilliantly colored. But as they join a harem, the stripes fade, leaving one bright stripe ...

The surprising escapes from near-death situations of beetles and other small animals illustrate how both prey and predators ...

The ocean’s fastest and most formidable predators might also be the most physiologically vulnerable to warming waters, ...

Ancient DNA reveals how farming accelerated human evolution, driving genetic changes over the past 10,000 years.