Short snouts and a flat profile -- within a span of 100 years, humans have significantly changed the shape of the skulls of German domestic pigs. This is likely down to new breeding practices ...

Australopithecus came before us, but that doesn't tell us which specific individual species is our ancestor. The fossil ...

Evolution is traditionally associated with a process of increasing complexity and gaining new genes. However, the explosion of the genomic era shows that gene loss and simplification is a much more ...

Human diets have evolved through a complex interplay of biological, environmental, and cultural factors from the Pleistocene era to the present day. This ...

A pair of landmark studies, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, has finally identified the originators of the ...