New research claims that tomato plants in the Galápagos might actually be de-evolving and picking up ancient traits.

Wild tomatoes in the Galápagos may be reversing evolution—reawakening ancient traits, surprising scientists at UC Riverside.

While evolution sculpted H. luzonensis into a small form ... that date to between 118,000 and 194,000 years old—or at least 60,000 years older than the island's oldest known modern humans.

Found in 1933 by a worker in northeastern China and hidden in a well for the rest of the 20th century, the 146,000-year-old fossil could belong to a hominin relative closer to modern humans than ...

Religious beliefs have been woven into the fabric of human existence for millennia, shaping cultures and guiding personal ...

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 ...

Two new studies add to the evidence that human activity, from fishing to urban development, is driving the evolution of wild ...

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 evolved testicles of all different sizes. In almost all these separate cases, ...

Human daily life evolved slowly for centuries, but now it shifts rapidly and our survival depends on maintaining balance.

In 2010, scientists found the first evidence of another hominin subspecies, known as the Danisovans. Now, they’ve identified ...

Step back in time to 3300 BCE and explore the Bronze Age, a period marked by the rise of early civilizations in Asia, Africa, ...

The shift from lizard-like sprawl to upright walking in mammals wasn’t a smooth climb up the evolutionary ladder. Instead, it ...