The more species of Homo there were, the higher the rate of speciation. So when those niches got filled, something drove even more species to emerge. This is almost unparalleled in evolutionary ...

Thousands of fossils from the La Brea tar pits in California show no signs of mammals and birds evolving in response to ...

A sweeping cosmic census from the James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled nearly 1,700 galaxy groups—marking the deepest and ...

The Chicago Archaeopteryx provides rare 3D insights into skull evolution, soft tissue structure, and the first evidence of ...

Life is thought to have begun when RNA began replicating itself, and researchers have got close to achieving this in the lab ...

Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to ...

First detected in 2015, gravitational waves may not have had a direct hand in human evolution, but it certainly helped set ...

Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to survive hundreds of years by adjusting its virulence and the length of time ...

can promote the evolution of cooperation through simulation based on evolutionary game theory. This result offers a new ... Apr. 16, 2025 — A study suggests that Homo sapiens may have benefited ...

A metrology revolution: In the 1790s, the Revolutionary government in France installed standard metre lengths made of marble in busy areas around Paris. This is one of the last remaining examples.

The 1983 ABC movie “The Day After” was a landmark moment that proved contentious even before it aired, as a new documentary shows. By Alissa Wilkinson The latest installment to the long ...

A large international team of anthropologists, evolutionary theorists, biologists, and historians has identified gender and genetic variability via sequencing of enamel proteins from four ...