Distinct human populations living on separate continents have followed largely similar patterns of evolution since the onset of the Neolithic period, according to a new study. This suggests that, ...

ch. 1. Ode to Cecropia: discovering nature -- ch. 2. Teasing the strands apart -- ch. 3. Time, energy, and biological evolution -- ch. 4. Evolution of the earth -- ch. 5. Of genes and species: modern ...

The concept of punctuated equilibrium was, to some, a radical new idea when it was first proposed by Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge in 1972. Now it is widely recognized as a useful model for one ...

Competition between species played a major role in the rise and fall of hominins – and produced a “bizarre” evolutionary pattern for the Homo lineage – according to a new University of Cambridge study ...