The ‘Out of Africa’ model that has dominated palaeoanthropology for nearly three decades was originally based on five elements: a recent ancestry to human populations; an African origin for the ances...

Abstract. Reductions in insect biodiversity are widely documented and result from numerous pressures that operate from local to global scales. Identifying

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An updated phylogeny of bats is presented, based on new genome assemblies and many ancient fossils and including all known bat families.

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hornbills, hornbill, Bucerotidae, Bucerotiformes, bucerotiform, bird evolution, evolution of birds, ornithology, palaeornithology, paleornithology, bird history, ground hornbill, Bucorvus, Buceros, zo...

New research suggests that Paleodictyon — honeycomb-shaped formations perhaps sketched by da Vinci — are not made by soft-bodied creatures.

In LIFE UNBOUNDED, pioneering evolutionary biologist William C. Ratcliff reveals that every great leap in life’s complexity, from the first cells to human culture, was driven by the same underlying pr...

The site of Bianfu Cave provides evidence that this group spanned all of China during the later Middle Pleistocene.

A newly discovered microbe living inside ancient stromatolite communities may offer a rare look at how complex life first emerged. Researchers captured the first direct images of an Asgard archaeon ph...

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A sampling of one of the world's most diverse ant faunas