Habitat loss, poaching, and conflicts with humans all cast dark shadows over their survival. With a dwindling population of fewer than 7,000 individuals remaining in the wild, the cheetah now bears ...

A new study by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology (MPI-EB) sheds fresh light on one of the most ...

Short snouts and a flat profile -- within a span of 100 years, humans have significantly changed the shape of the skulls of German domestic pigs. This is likely down to new breeding practices ...

Selective breeding over the past century has shortened and flattened the snouts of German domestic pigs. Though not an ...

Surprisingly, the same effects can even be observed in species that were kept ... The findings demonstrate how strongly humans can influence the evolution of animals. "Charles Darwin assumed ...

The findings demonstrate how strongly humans can influence the evolution of animals. "Charles Darwin assumed that long periods of time—millions of years—are required for major changes to take ...

As Earth approaches warmer levels experienced earlier in its geologic history, it may be bad news for human survival.

In the mid-19th century, Charles Darwin unveiled a revolutionary idea. Darwin’s On the Origin of Species crashed through the ...

More than a decade after his 'Origin of Species', Darwin found courage to publish ideas he had once only hinted at. In 'The Descent of Man' he presented an unequivocal account of human evolution.