A new study explains why humans have chins while other primates do not. Researchers found that the chin likely formed as a ...

New research challenges the one-level view of evolution, showing natural selection works on individuals and groups together.

Biologists have debated the reason why Homo sapiens evolved a prominent lower jaw, but this unique feature may actually be a by-product of other traits shaped by natural selection ...

“The chin evolved largely by accident and not through direct selection, but as an evolutionary byproduct resulting from ...

Learn how the chin became an evolutionary byproduct that's unique to humans.

It is often assumed that modern humans are no longer evolving. But there is now considerable agreement among scientists that evolution is still affecting our species—and this process is taking place ...

Long before DNA unraveled the double helix of life, scientists were already tinkering with its inheritance. The idea that traits could be passed from one generation to the next fascinated early ...

Learn how repeated burn injuries may have acted as a form of natural selection, influencing human genes linked to healing and immune response.

The story of Charles Darwin’s life. His theory of evolution changed the way we understood our place in the world.

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Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping ...

For the first time in humans, researchers have discovered a large chromosomal rearrangement that bears the mark of natural selection, they report in the February issue of Nature Genetics. The ...