A study of the super-diverse bird groups, which include Darwin's finches, has found that modular skull parts helped them adapt to different roles. Adaptive radiation is the rapid evolution of many ...

Evolutionary biologists aim to form fundamental connections between microevolutionary processes and macroevolutionary patterns based on comparative datasets of population-level variation. In a new ...

What Is the Skull Made Of? The skull, also known as the cranium, is the group of bones that forms the head. While many people think of the skull as a single structure, it’s actually made up of 22 ...