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 ...

Although models like this are simplifications of the real world, they are valuable for conceptualizing how evolution might have produced particular tendencies in humans and other animals. But this ...

Human evolution is often told as a tidy story of adaptation, yet some of our most familiar body parts still defy ...