Cancer was the second leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2020. Although billions of dollars have been poured into cancer research, the results are still disappointing for many patients who pay ...

On the centennial anniversary of “The Origin of Species” in 1959, geneticist Hermann Joseph Muller warned, “One hundred years without Darwin have been enough.” It has been 53 years since Muller’s ...

A new theory suggests that cultural systems dictated how human beings survived and not genetics, hinting at adaptability and ...

Three new faculty members in the Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology brings distinct expertise to strengthen the ...

The first primate to look like modern humans, Homo sapiens that is, was Homo erectus, an ancient hominin that evolved in Africa about 2 million years ago. H. erectus was taller than the archaic ...

Learn why some researchers say that our culture – not genetics – is driving our evolution and what that could mean for our future.

The mystery of human evolution is nowhere close to being resolved. Every new discovery not only peels off the layer of truth but also brings forth a plethora of questions. The recent fossil discovery ...

As evidence he is not a cartoonish rich man, Mitt Romney has invoked a political form of the discarded theory of Lamarckism while talking about how his father grew up poor and worked with his hands.

Across mammal species, from baboons and gorillas up to humans, females usually live longer than the males do. However, this ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Life did not begin with one primordial cell. Instead, there were initially at least three simple types of loosely constructed cellular organizations. They swam in a pool of genes, ...

It made for great oratory between eminent rivals, and it put the debate over teaching evolution on front pages across the country. But one thing the Scopes "monkey trial" of 1925 did not do was settle ...

Over the past 500 million years, nearly all evolutionary changes in octopuses and squids occurred in rapid bursts during the emergence of new species, according to research from the University of ...