For decades, scientists have known that bacteria can exchange genetic material, in a process called horizontal gene transfer.

In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to ...

Digital reconstruction of a partially crushed skull suggests new insight into Homo sapiens’ evolutionary relationship to Denisovans and Neandertals.

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The biological study of species offers no equivalent to such transmutation. An individual which belongs to a given species ...