On an expedition in the Awash Valley in Ethiopia, two anthropologists uncovered the bones of a 3.2 million-year-old human ...

"One Hand Clapping" draws from neuroscience, evolution, philosophy and a rich tapestry of cultural references to examine how ...

Summary: Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum explore why consciousness evolved and why different species developed it in distinct ways. By comparing humans with birds, they show that complex ...

A cell is fundamentally a container—a vessel that encapsulates life at the most basic level. Many biologists believe ...

Analysis of the DNA and proteins of a range of animals has revealed that sperm’s molecular toolkit arose in our single-celled ...

Although we humans have changed our environment in many ways during the past few thousand years, we are still changed by ...

Is an organism a sum of its parts, or should they be considered as a whole? New research on ferns shows how the way scientists understand evolution affects how they study life.

Menopause is a developmental and neurological transition that opens the door to new forms of insight, stability, and ...

Nye is best known as Bill Nye the Science Guy, whose show helped children learn science in a fun way. While he is now ...

The theory of evolution by natural selection was first formulated in Darwin’s book “On the Origin of Species” in 1859. It ...

The advent of artificial intelligence might be just the latest stage in a guiding biological process that has produced ever more complex, mutually dependent organisms over the history of life.

Dr. Mikael Siversson, a prominent researcher in the field of Earth and planetary sciences, has dedicated decades to studying Cardabiodontids. His analysis of fossilized vertebrae led to the ...