evolution

  • A Massive Project Is Helping Scientists Unravel the Genetic Secrets of Mammals

    A Massive Project Is Helping Scientists Unravel the Genetic Secrets of Mammals

    In expansive new research out this week, scientists around the world have started to unravel the genetic secrets behind one of nature’s greatest success stories: mammals. They’ve catalogued and compared the genomes of more than 200 mammal species, including elephants, bats, and humans. Among other things, their findings should help us understand the origins of…


  • Evolution Deniers Are Finally a Minority in the U.S.

    Evolution Deniers Are Finally a Minority in the U.S.

    Americans continue to have a challenging relationship with science, modern medicine, and at times reality, but a review of annual surveys from 1985 to 2019 does yield some good news: Over half of surveyed participants believed in the science of evolution. That’s a win, I guess.


  • How Did the First Person Evolve?

    How Did the First Person Evolve?

    We know humans haven’t always been around. After all, we wouldn’t have survived alongside meat-eating dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus rex. How the first person came about – and who their ancestors were (their grandparents, great-grandparents and so on) – is one of the biggest questions archaeologists have. Even today, it puzzles us. When all living things…