There’s a metaphor here, and an important lesson for ourselves.
One genetic change 3 million years ago made our brains big — and won us the world
I’m not complaining.
Earth’s first giant predators produced killer babies
If the adults weren’t scary enough, the babies were also killing machines.
Early baleen whales were fearsome predators with wicked teeth, but lost them entirely
Baleen, one surprising fossil suggests, evolved from gums rather than teeth.
Mass extinctions don’t come out of the blue — and we’re seeing some of the signs today
An incoming mass extinction isn’t as hard to spot as we’d believed.
Darwin’s “advertising” — the magnificent biological art of Ernst Haeckel
You might have not heard his name, but you should have.
Saddle up: New evidence forces us to rethink what we know about horse history
Instead of the domesticated horses deriving from today’s wild horses, it’s the other way around.
Debunking some misconceptions about evolution
Sometimes, it’s good to remember that even evolution doesn’t want you to be perfect. Good enough is just fine.
Plants colonized the land 500 million years ago — much earlier than we thought
Plants might have moved on to the land 100 million years earlier than we thought.
Primitive ‘walking’ fish can teach us how the first land animals evolved
An amazing ‘living fossil’ suggests ancient marine life evolved the software for walking before the hardware.
People who don’t understand evolution are much more likely to reject it
Well here’s a shocker.
Amazing fossil shows that Earth’s earliest birds evolved just like Darwin’s finches
These proto-birds may have evolved just like their modern relatives.
Humans got a brain upgrade less than 200,000 years ago, and it made us what we are today
The brain changes and the skull follows.
Different species can emerge in only two generations, new study reveals
It’s the equivalent of your grandkids being a new species. Pretty crazy.
Humans got taller, then bulkier in ‘bursts’ during our evolution
Growing strong!
Fossilized ancient lizard shows how dinos evolved to live in the oceans
Life’s always greener on the other side. Even if that’s the ocean.
Newly described genus hints at the evolutionary roots of the giraffe
Long neck, long history.
Aliens could be more like us than we think, say Oxford scientists
Natural selection fosters certain qualities so aliens shouldn’t look extremely different from humans.
Great tits are evolving, new study shows
I know what you were thinking about. Birds, they’re birds.
New York mice are actively evolving into a new species: city mice
Soon they’ll carry little smartphones around. I hope.