It’s not the students’ fault. Ecology and evolution offerings in the biology school curriculum are slim pickings: blink and ...

The Natural History GCSE will focus on wildlife, the impact of humans on the natural world and biodiversity, plus fieldwork ...

Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and ...

New fossil discoveries are reshaping scientists’ understanding of a pivotal chapter in human evolution, revealing that several human ancestor lineages lived side by side nearly 3 million years ago.

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral population in Africa. By analyzing genetic data from diverse modern African ...

Biology has clever ways to mask the effects of potentially harmful gene mutations. Scientists are investigating how this ...

In the 1960s, Kimura’s neutral theory revolutionized molecular biology by arguing most DNA changes are random, not adaptive. A new study finds beneficial mutations are far more common than Kimura’s ...

Reconstruction of the ancestral gene repertoire of eukaryotic cells reveals traces of a series of close, long-term ...

Researchers relied on a newer gene-editing technique that may make it possible to engineer embryos, a prospect that has long alarmed bioethicists. By Carl Zimmer Scientists at Columbia University have ...

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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 ...