PROTEUS, a system designed to harness “directed evolution,” can speed the process up by years, or even decades.

Human testicles are much smaller, in proportion, to some of our primate cousins. Evolution can tell us why. But the size of ...

Proteins degrade over time, making their history hard to study. But new research has uncovered ancient proteins in the enamel ...

For over a century, scientists have been captivated by the mystery of how mammals evolved from sprawling creatures resembling ...

The shift from lizard-like sprawl to upright walking in mammals wasn’t a smooth climb up the evolutionary ladder. Instead, it ...

Mammal evolution to upright posture followed complex branching path rather than simple step-by-step progression.

A new breakdown of earthworm DNA could help us better understand how evolution works, and it could prove Darwin completely ...

An international research team led by scientists from the University of Vienna has uncovered new insights into how specialized cell types and ...

The transition from sprawling (reptile-like) to more upright (parasagittal) posture and locomotion was a transformative event in mammalian evolution ...

An international research team led by scientists from the University of Vienna has uncovered new insights into how ...

For decades, scientists have known that platypuses and echidnas – Australia’s unique egg-laying mammals – have another developmental quirk: they don’t use the same genetic toolkit as other mammals to ...