A team of researchers at the University of Zurich has discovered that plants benefit from a greater variety of interactions with pollinators and herbivores. Plants that are pollinated by insects and ...

The (un)lucky fossil, now known as Kabwe 1, represents a turning point at a time when Africa was considered peripheral to the story of human evolution. A century later, it’s widely accepted that the ...

Click here to view Volume I of this Research TopicThe domestication of animals and plants during the early Holocene marked a pivotal transition that led to ...

Combining the principles of evolution with artificial intelligence (AI), scientists have proposed a new way to predict the chance of prostate cancer returning. In a recent study, they harnessed ...

Central features of human evolution may stop our species from resolving global environmental problems like climate change, says a recent study led by the University of Maine. Humans have come to ...

Systems-level thinking has transformed how we study life across scales, from molecules and cells to populations, communities ...

A new study outlines the ways by which city life may be shaping the evolution of urban coyotes, the highly adaptable carnivores spotted in alleyways from Berkeley, Calif., to the Bronx, in New York. A ...

Groundbreaking new research from the Museums Victoria Research Institute has turned upside down our previous understanding of the evolution of the largest animals ever––baleen whales. Palaeontologists ...

Phylogenetic analysis of marsupial evolution integrates molecular sequences, morphological data and fossil evidence to reconstruct the relationships and temporal radiation of metatherian mammals.

Fossilized bones help tell the story of what human beings and our predecessors were doing hundreds of thousands of years ago. But how can you learn about important parts of our ancestors’ life cycle – ...