When evolution skeptics want to attack Darwin's theory, they often point to the human eye. How could something so complex, they argue, have developed through random mutations and natural selection ...

Even around 150,000 years ago, “when these groups coalesced, their exchanges shaped the course of our evolution and likely contributed to the success of our species,” Scerri says.

Molecular evolution is the area of evolutionary biology that studies evolutionary change at the level of the DNA sequence. It includes the study of rates of sequence change, relative importance of ...

More: A dinosaur museum in an unlikely place Edward Braun, a professor of biology at the University of Florida who has studied the evolution of birds, said the study's findings suggest that there ...

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