Chart of Life Extended by Nearly 1.5 Billion Years Dec. 19, 2024 — Fossilized skeletons and shells clearly show how evolution and extinction unfolded over the past half a billion years ...

Sex is the driving force of evolution: It promotes genetic diversity and helps organisms to adapt more quickly to changing environmental conditions. Without sex, however, organisms risk genetic ...

Homo sapiens' entry into Europe might have hastened Neandertals' extinction. Neandertals may have had a greater penchant for cannibalism than Homo sapiens.

Brockington, who is also Professor of Evolution in the University of Cambridge's Department ... with many globally threatened ...

Antarctica may have been a refuge for early waterfowl ancestors, shielding them from the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs.