If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the ... but it only works if the feature in question has evolved more than once on separate branches of the tree of life. This repeated evolution is ...

The unique human body part that evolution cannot explain The human chin has long been fertile ground for arguments between scientists over its purpose ...

If we climb the evolutionary tree of life, we can follow a twisting path that visits the increasingly specialised branches that a species belongs to.

A new study argues that religion, politics and war affect how animals and plants in cities evolve, and the confluence of ...

Images released ahead of a new BBC science series depict Homo floresiensis, Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis plus the ...

One hundred years ago, a public high school teacher stood trial in Dayton, Tennessee, for teaching human evolution. His ...