The idea that six generations are battling it out in today's workplace makes for compelling headlines, but how much of it is actually true?

Even Charles Darwin was puzzled by the evolution of the vertebrate eye. New research suggests that it traces back to a cyclopean invertebrate with a single eye atop the head.

After the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, escaped domestic pigs bred with wild boar, creating a hybrid population.

New research challenges the one-level view of evolution, showing natural selection works on individuals and groups together.

Survival of the fittest. Nature red in tooth and claw. The common view of natural selection is based solely on the individual: A trait allows an organism to out-compete its rivals and is thus passed ...

The evolution of human hands is one of the most important – and overlooked – stories of our origin. Now, new fossil evidence ...

New plankton arrived just a few millennia — maybe even decades — after the Chicxulub asteroid, forcing a rethink of evolution ...

Men want hot women, and women want rich men. Or do they? Relationship scientist and UC Davis psychology professor Paul ...

Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave art that we don’t have the technology to date. Columnist Michael Marshall ...

Researchers are applying insights into the genetic variations and physiology of obesity to apply tailored interventions to patients to improve treatment outcomes.

Medical practice is built on the foundations of evidence-based medicine. Hence, the more common the clinical intervention, the more comprehensive the evidence on which that intervention should be ...