In a stunning discovery in Kenya, a set of 1.5-million-year-old footprints has raised new questions about the origins of ...

Homo sapiens began in Africa but Neanderthals were Eurasian. Any miscegenation would have happened after sapiens left its ...

A new study has revealed the clearest-ever picture of the surface chemistry of worm species that provides groundbreaking insights into how animals interact with their environment and each other. These ...

In a nutshell New research challenges the long-held belief that human evolution required improbable “lucky breaks,” ...

Humans evolved late in Earth history. While this timing inspired the conclusion that humanlike life is a cosmic improbability ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to ...

“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the "natural evolutionary outcome" for our planet and likely others, according ...

A new study rewrites the story of human evolution, suggesting that intelligent life is not rare but a natural planetary ...

Zipf’s law of abbreviation was only found to apply to blue whales and humpback whales, though only five species could be ...

Scientists found that evolution led bird and mammal brains to evolve separately, using different genetic instructions.