Evolutionary biologists aim to form fundamental connections between microevolutionary processes and macroevolutionary patterns based on comparative datasets of population-level variation. In a new ...

Yet these same spacecraft also beam back patterns and images that we sometimes interpret as being familiar: perhaps a face in rock, or a colossal hand in a cosmic cloud. This tendency to see a ...

A team of paleontologists has identified the oldest and most skeletally complete dome-headed dinosaur ever reported, based on ...

Genetically determined morphological integration directs the evolution of skull shape in humans, according to new research. Genetically determined morphological integration directs the evolution of ...

A study of the super-diverse bird groups, which include Darwin's finches, has found that modular skull parts helped them adapt to different roles. Adaptive radiation is the rapid evolution of many ...