Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran ...

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ancestral lineages.

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So forth and so on. The most recent, broadly recognized codification of evolutionary theory is known as the Modern Synthesis. After nearly 3 decades of theorizing, experimentation, and writing by ...

If you’ve taken high school or college biology, you’ve probably been exposed to a good dose of Darwinian evolution. Darwinian theory includes the belief that all living things descended from a small ...

Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences has officially voted to change the name of the Human Evolutionary Biology concentration during a meeting on April 1. Effective as of July 1, 2025 — when the ...

The mating rituals of many bird species involve elaborate dances and displays by the males. The evolutionary reasons for the ...

By analyzing the DNA of two 7,000-year-old ... 'She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not': Physical Forces Encouraged Evolution of Multicellular Life, Scientists Propose Mar. 31, 2025 — A study presents a ...

Evolution is nature's engine, driving and shaping genetic change and the diversity around us. Charles Darwin famously ...

Languages: English. A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and ...

on Monday, March 3, 2025. Credit: AP/Kristin M. Hall In 1859, British naturalist Charles Darwin published “On the Origin of Species,” which explained his theory of evolution by means of natural ...