Brown bears are not pets. Yet, a small bear population in the Apennines has shown unusually gentle behavior toward humans for centuries. Now, a genome study reveals: This change is not just ...

This is the centennial year for the Scopes “monkey trial” in Dayton, Tennessee, 1925’s “trial of the century”. In the dock ...

Evidence from a site in southeast England suggests early humans were purposefully and repeatedly igniting blazes roughly ...

Tickling, a seemingly involuntary reflex, evolved not for humor but for connection. It targets exposed areas, triggering ...

Australian-led study suggests iconic South African skeleton differs from known Australopithecus species, media reports - ...

Archaeologist Paula García Medrano, researcher at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution reports that Italian bears living in areas with many villages evolved and ...

New genetic research suggests centuries of human persecution may have selected for calmer behavior in Italy's rare Apennine ...

An international study led by researchers from Australia's La Trobe University and the University of Cambridge has challenged ...

And something is happening here, but you don’t know what it is, do you, Mr. Jones?” Bob Dylan wrote that in 1965 about a man watching the world slip out of his grasp. The strange thing is how well it ...

Scientists have discovered that brown bears living near human settlements in Italy have become smaller and less aggressive in the process of evolution. This was reported by Science X magazine on ...

Scientists have sequenced the genome of the \"vampire squid from hell,\" revealing it bridges the evolutionary gap between ...