In most cases, evolution is a pretty slow process, taking hundreds if not thousands of years—but when humans enter the picture, some animals have to evolve at light speed in order to survive in a ...

A QUT-led study has found how increasing aridity and habitat variation and the subsequent emergence of grasslands shaped the ...

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have a unique resource in the form of the Center for Biomolecular ...

Artificial intelligence allows tracing the evolution of genetic control elements in the developing mammalian cerebellum. An international research team led by biologists from Heidelberg University as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It may have fewer than many of the other sciences, but biology does have two dozen or so “rules”—broad generalizations about the ...

As our evolution slows and industrialization and technology accelerates, a growing body of research suggests that human biology is struggling to keep pace. Many of the chronic stress-related health ...

Reporters from across the United States flocked to eastern Tennessee in July 1925. In the small town of Dayton, biology teacher John Scopes went on trial for the crime of teaching human evolution.

A chance discovery in a Vermont cheese cave has given scientists a rare glimpse of evolution unfolding in real time – and the unexpected findings have broad implications for protecting human health, ...

One hundred years ago, a small town in eastern Tennessee captured the attention of the entire country. A biology teacher in Dayton was accused of teaching human evolution to his students — which was ...

One hundred years ago a young teacher, John T. Scopes, went on trial in Dayton, Tenn., for violating a recently enacted state law that forbade the state’s educators “to teach any theory that denies ...