A new model upends the decades-old “hard steps” theory that intelligent life was an incredibly improbable event and suggests that maybe it wasn't all that hard or improbable. The team of researchers ...
Humans evolved late in Earth history. While this timing inspired the conclusion that humanlike life is a cosmic improbability, a new study pushes back.
Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to ...
Scientists found that evolution led bird and mammal brains to evolve separately, using different genetic instructions.
New research indicates that hominins migrated into Eurasia approximately 200,000 years earlier than previously believed, ...
In a new study published in Science, a Belgian research team explores how genetic switches controlling gene activity define ...
According to a new exhibition in Amsterdam, centuries of human intervention turned the animal into “a wool-producing machine ...