The terms hominid and hominin are often used interchangeably, but they do not mean the same thing. Hominids include all great ...

Life on Earth has made several “great leaps” in its evolutionary history: from unicellularity to multicellularity, from sea to land, and from land into the skies. What if the next one lies beyond our ...

A newly discovered ape ancestor in Egypt suggests great apes may have evolved beyond East Africa, reshaping understanding of ...

New research reveals that Earth’s so-called “Boring Billion” — a period between 1.8 and 0.8 billion years ago — was anything but dull. Scientists from the University of Sydney and the University of ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution finds that changes in animal development induced by climate shock persist generations after the initial event. The escalating effects of climate change ...