Two fish fossils found in China have given us more insight into what bony fish looked like before separate lineages diverged.

Genomic analysis reveals squid and cuttlefish evolved in deep oceans, survived mass extinction in refuges, and later rapidly diversified, following a “long fuse” evolutionary pattern.

Glaciers are disappearing, biodiversity loss is accelerating, and governments continue to spend far more destroying nature ...

We thought it was evolution, but an experiment with pencils shows that tips like teeth and thorns may owe their rounded shape ...

As the electricity market is progressively liberalized, virtual bidding has emerged as a novel participation mechanism attracting increasing attention. This paper integrates evolutionary game theory ...

An evolutionary "arms race" for light and space led to the early domestication of wheat, according to new research that could offer fresh insights into crop design. The study led by Dr. Yixiang Shan ...

Humans are the only primates with a chin, leaving biologists to wonder why we acquired this unique feature. According to a new analysis of head anatomy in apes, it probably didn’t evolve for a ...

College campuses act as a notoriously cyclical cesspool for fashion pieces, items, and lifestyles among young adults, and the University of Iowa is no exception to this consistently trendy culture.

Data were systematically retrieved from the Web of Science Core Collection, Scopus, PMC, and Altmetric databases. By integrating network visualization (CiteSpace, VOSviewer), descriptive bibliometrics ...

The economist and philosopher Adam Smith described the evolution of human civilization as comprising four stages: hunting, shepherding, agriculture and commerce. Each stage represented a leap in how ...

At a site called East Farm in England, recent excavations revealed reddened silt, flint handaxes distorted by heat, and fragments of a mineral—iron pyrite—that could have been used to make sparks on ...