Lead exposure may have spelled evolutionary success for humans—and extinction for our ancient cousins—but other scientists ...

Lead exposure remains a public health issue around the world, even after decades of remediation efforts. According to the ...

Hominids experienced lead exposure as far back as 2-million years ago, new research finds, challenging the theory that the ...

A remarkable 151-million-year-old fly fossil found in China is changing our view of insect evolution. This ancient insect, ...

A simple change in species composition can impact the course of evolution: A research team from the University of Bern and ...

This week, researchers reported the discovery of four Late Bronze Age stone megastructures likely used for trapping herds of ...

The $148,000 award supports collaborative research and community outreach on Pennsylvania’s Devonian fossil record.

I'm a Lego expert and I love the Lego Ideas Evolution of STEM set. Could it be the best science-themed set ever, despite some ...

One hundred years ago, a substitute teacher in Dayton, Tenn., was charged with the crime of teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. His name was John Scopes. At the time, ...

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 ...

Evolution is the underlying assumption of biology; nothing in the field makes sense without it. It should trouble us that so ...

Hamilton's rule, introduced in the 1960s, says that altruism—helping others at your own expense—can evolve when the benefits to others, multiplied by how closely related they are to you, outweigh the ...