Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: The famous analogy goes that if all of Earth's geologic history was compressed into a single calendar year, modern humans wouldn't make an appearance ...

Researchers suggest that evolution may speed up dramatically during certain periods, challenging a long-held theory and helping explain a puzzling 30-million-year gap between genetic estimates and the ...

An international research team has completed the first comprehensive evolutionary history of all living millipede lineages ...

The story of primates is a tale of incredible variety and ancient roots, told through the lens of science, DNA, and time itself. These creatures, ranging from massive gorillas to tiny mouse lemurs, ...

Ancient ape skull from Turkey could reshape human evolution timeline ...

Scientists have helped to construct a detailed timeline for bacterial evolution, suggesting some bacteria used oxygen long before evolving the ability to produce it through photosynthesis. University ...

A new study by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology (MPI-EB) sheds fresh light on one of the most debated concepts in biology: evolvability. The work provides the first ...