evolution

A new study suggests that malaria influenced where early humans lived in sub-Saharan Africa between around 74,000 and 5,000 years ago, fragmenting...

Professor Simon Conway Morris, Emeritus Professor of Evolutionary Paleobiology in the Department of Earth Sciences and Fellow of St John’s College...

Differences in cellular pathway activity flip the switch from nocturnality to diurnality and explain a major evolutionary change humans have...

The first study to analyse rates of full vs half siblings in a range of mammals provides new evidence for monogamous behaviour in humans compared to...

Three Cambridge researchers are among 77 early-career researchers who have been awarded a total of £120 million to lead vital research, collaborate...

Researchers have captured the first clear view of the hidden architecture that helps shape a simple multicellular organism, showing how cells work...

The placenta and the hormones it produces may have played a crucial role in the evolution of the human brain, while also leading to the behavioural...

Researchers have found that chunks of ‘flipped’ DNA can help fish quickly adapt to new habitats and evolve into new species, acting as evolutionary ‘...