Two fish fossils found in China have given us more insight into what bony fish looked like before separate lineages diverged.

The first-ever published research on Tinshemet Cave reveals that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in the mid-Middle Paleolithic ...

Genomic analysis reveals squid and cuttlefish evolved in deep oceans, survived mass extinction in refuges, and later rapidly diversified, following a “long fuse” evolutionary pattern.

Abstract: Differential Evolution (DE) is a straightforward yet powerful method for numerical optimization. The performance of the DE algorithm is greatly affected by its parameter configuration, as a ...

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If a single shock generations before could lead to these differences in distant descendants, repeated events associated with ...

Biologists say the appendix isn’t useless after all. Evolution kept reinventing it, and it may help support gut immunity and ...

Stacker has chronicled social, scientific, and business inventions that changed America over hundreds of years.

Pollination and Human Understanding,” which opened on Mar. 17, is the newest exhibition at the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation.

Comparative anatomy and fossil evidence suggest that early vertebrates possessed more than the well-known pair of lateral (on the sides) eyes. In addition to these image-forming eyes, many species had ...

Progovac's study challenges two dominant narratives in human evolution: "survival of the fittest" (physical strength) and "survival of the friendliest" (prosociality). While both played a role, ...

Why do humans have an appendix? New research is reshaping our understanding of this overlooked organ and its antiquated role ...