Evolution isn’t a single, straightforward process – it works in several distinct ways. From species splitting apart over time ...

When anthropologists work to reconstruct the lives of our own ancestors we bring together multiple sources of information. We look at fossils and material culture, such as ancient tool technologies.

Carcinization is a captivating type of convergent evolution where five different groups of crustaceans have separately evolved to have crab-like body structures. Evolutionary paleobiologist Matthew ...