Humans artificially drive evolution of new species Date: June 28, 2016 Source: Faculty of Science - University of Copenhagen Summary: Species across the world are rapidly going extinct due to ...

If the changes come too fast for evolution to keep up, there's always extinction. Rates of species loss are now estimated to be 1,000 times higher than they were before human domination.More than ...

A recent study in Australia found most of the hundreds of plant species introduced there show some evidence of recent evolution, post-introduction, with many of them apparently having evolved ...

Read more: “Unnatural selection: How humans are driving evolution“ Humans are not only causing a mass extinction – we are also the biggest force in the evolution of the species ...

An artist's rendering of the "dragon man". CHUANG ZHAO/AFP The world has taken a critical step toward figuring out the origin and evolution of Homo sapiens, the species all living humans belong to ...

A shark fossil that dates back 385 million years shows scientists how the sea creatures are related to humans and where in the history of evolution our species broke off from them.

As humans have come to dominate the planet, they have modified not only their own evolutionary course but also that of fellow species. Although such alterations help us survive, their unintended ...