A special issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B takes a bold step toward redefining one of the most ...

Cats, dogs and farm animals are what come to mind when we think of domesticated animals. For ages, domestication has been ...

Humans didn’t evolve for spreadsheets, yet we’re chained to them. Learn why the brain rebels against cubicles, and how to redesign work so it fuels purpose, mastery, and belonging.

In new research published today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, we identify Australia’s earliest known species of ...

A research team has created a comprehensive evolutionary tree of all bird species, integrating data from hundreds of studies ...

When one company proclaimed it had brought back the dire wolf, the response was joyous. But de-extinction remains a dangerous ...

With this breakthrough, humans are tampering with evolution beyond its historical use of artificial selection, or breeding ...

By combining data on all known bird species, this tree is the most impressive snapshot yet of one of Earth’s most ...

It's the first observation of "sympatric" evolution: that two species evolved from a common ancestor despite no geographical separation ...

"Species concepts are human classification systems, and everybody can disagree and everyone can be right," she says. "You can use the phylogenetic [evolutionary relationships] species concept to ...

Nature has published the international study in which the Biodiversity and Evolution research group of the University of the ...