If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

Veins in Lee Franco’s temples and along his biceps bulged as he lifted a 25-pound weight to his chest. He grimaced under the load, but knew if he dropped the dumbbell, no one at the gym would laugh or ...

In thoroughly enjoyable and edifying prose, Lieberman, professor of human evolution at Harvard, leads a fascinating journey through human evolution. He comprehensively explains how evolutionary forces ...

Insular evolution represents an exceptional facet of evolutionary biology, wherein species isolated on islands undergo distinct morphological, behavioural, and ecological changes compared to their ...

Females and males differ in many ways and yet they share the same genome. The only exception is the male Y chromosome. Using beetles as a study system, new research shows that despite of the Y ...