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 ...

An international team of researchers led by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig ...

However, the two lineages appear to have evolved this feature on their own, in a process called convergent evolution. This study, in addition to helping explain the evolution of rodents into the ...

Evolution is hard to model mathematically, but a new study may have found a way to do just that with some inspiration from ...

Depression feels weird compared to things like fear or anger, which help us survive by warning us of danger or pushing us into action. Instead, it slows us down, saps our energy, and makes us pull ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...