Using termite and cockroach genomes, researchers built phylogenetic trees from transposons, paving a new way to differentiate difficult evolutionary lineages.

Max Telford translated the technical effort behind studying evolution into a relatable story for every reader in The Tree of ...

The cultivation of wheat, barley and maize, which are easily stored and taxed, seems to have led to the emergence of large ...

Most days you move through the world without thinking about the invisible creatures that surround you. Yet one of them, a ...

Scientists trace the origins of human kissing back over 20 million years to ancient apes who first showed gentle ...

Scientists suggest kissing is much older than humans. Evidence points to ancient primates sharing affectionate mouth-to-mouth ...

Although the wind was a bit brisk and cool along the lakeshore Saturday afternoon, it didn’t stop a group of curious nature ...

A new study reveals kissing began in the common ancestor of humans and great apes 21 million years ago, and even Neanderthals ...

With a new study in the journal Cell, researchers at Stanford University and Stockholm University have contributed to ...

An enigmatic group of fossil organisms has finally been identified—and is changing the story of how plants took root on land ...

Is an organism a sum of its parts, or should they be considered as a whole? New research on ferns shows how the way scientists understand evolution affects how they study life.

Mississippi State biologist Matthew W. Brown, the university’s Donald L. Hall Professor of Biology, is part of an ...