FRIEDRICH ENGELS’S essay on the origins of our species is today recognised as a foundational text, not just of Marxism, but of today’s physical and social anthropology.Like most of Engels’s ...

Goosebumps might be a common phenomenon we experience in our lives, as they were for our ancestors, but they might play an entirely different role for us.

Pollination and Human Understanding,” which opened on Mar. 17, is the newest exhibition at the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation.

Scientists have discovered fossils in China that reveal a crucial transition from simple to complex life on Earth.

Paid content is paid for and controlled by an advertiser and produced by the Guardian Labs team. In a special episode of The Rest Is Science, Hannah Fry and Michael Stevens discuss the story behind ...

Most of us learn the way we were taught to learn in school. You sit down, read what you must, and move on with your life.

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The appendix has independently evolved at least 32 times across 361 mammalian species. What makes it an evolutionary darling ...

Cutting-edge DNA analysis has forced a rethink of where the lava heron truly belongs in the tree of life, and the answer ...

Discover LUCA, the last universal common ancestor, and its significance in the evolution of all life on Earth.

Powerful punches. Flesh-tearing teeth. Deadly talons. We explore the best (or is it the worst?) weapons in the natural world.

Andy Weir, perhaps best-known for his now-classic science fiction book-turned-movie The Martian, has produced another fantastical and deeply science-based book in Project Hail Mary. This book, which ...