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

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

Scientists found that evolution itself can evolve. Organisms exposed to changing environments develop a better ability to ...

The cool conditions which have allowed ice caps to form on Earth are rare events in the planet's history and require many ...

We suggest that as the Earth changed physically and chemically over time, its surface conditions allowed for a greater diversity of habitats for life. And these changes operate on geologic timescales ...

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

A popular model of evolution concludes that it was incredibly unlikely for humanity to evolve on Earth, and that ...

A new study explores how complex chemical mixtures change under shifting environmental conditions, shedding light on the ...

Remarkable social behaviors have been discovered in Kinda baboons (Papio kindae) that set them apart from other baboon ...

Watch the Earth's tectonic plates grow, shrink, and jostle for position in this new model of the last billion years on the ...

The team used advanced numerical simulations to model the magneto-thermal evolution of these stars ... are hundreds trillions times stronger the Earth magnetic fields. Due to these fields ...

How did Earth transform from a hostile, acidic ocean world to one that nurtured life? Scientists at Yale and in Singapore ...