The first fossil hominins were discovered at the beginning of the 20th century in South Africa, just over half a century ...

Now this ancient man – or least, his fossilised skull – is challenging the textbook timeline of human evolution, prompting ...

The biological study of species offers no equivalent to such transmutation. An individual which belongs to a given species ...

The origin of the Origin / Michael Ruse -- Darwin's analogy between artificial and natural selection in the origin of species / Mark A. Largent -- Variation and inheritance / Robert Olby -- Darwin's ...

A research team reconstructed the genome of an extinct horse species through an open-air extraction at the archaeological ...

The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin was one of the most important books in human history. It polarized the entire world and continues to be a subject of debate when it was originally published in ...

A tiny fish fossil found far inland in Canada reveals new insight into the evolution of catfish, carp, and 2/3 of all ...

The fossil of a tiny fish found in southwestern Alberta provides new insight into the origin and evolution of otophysans, the ...

He lived hundreds of thousands of years ago, eking out an existence in what is today central China. Sporting a squat neck and a big brain, he likely wielded tools made of stone and hunted or scavenged ...

Just last year Science hailed stem cell isolation and culture as the "breakthrough of the year." 1 Much of the excitement over stem cells derives from their potential to differentiate into any cell ...