"Evolution" Blogs & Blog Posts

Giraffes have the longest necks of any living animal today, but scientists debated why for over a century. A new study may finally have the answer.

The German cockroach, one of the most common household pests, adapted to thrive in human dwellings about 2,100 years ago, according to a new study.

An orangutan named Rakus has a pretty solid grasp of first-aid. He's the first orangutan ever observed to intentionally self-heal himself with plants.

Aggressively incurious charlatan Tucker Carlson recently went on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast to hold forth on the topic of evolution. "I think we've kind of given up on the idea of evolution," he told Rogan. That's correct, if you define "we" to...

You probably don't think much about your chin, except as a convenient place to rest your head while you stare at a computer screen. But consider this: It's the most recognizably human thing about you.

In October, a paper titled "Assembly theory explains and quantifies selection and evolution" appeared in the journal Nature. The authors—a team led by Lee Cronin at the University of Glasgow and Sara Walker at Arizona State University—claim their...

The Dental Anthropology Group at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) has published a study in the journal Anthropological Science, in collaboration with the University of Bordeaux (France) and the University of P...