Explore how new research suggests that intelligent life may emerge naturally under favorable conditions over time.

Neanderthals lost genetic diversity around 110,000 years ago. Researchers confirmed this by studying fossilized inner ears.

“Sometimes redundancy has a way of showing up under certain conditions; they’re not truly redundant,” said Michael Snyder, ...

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In a lab at Rockefeller University in New York, a mouse squeaks. But this is no ordinary squeak. It is a strange, complex ...

Selective breeding over the past century has shortened and flattened the snouts of German domestic pigs. Though not an ...

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

New research suggests a genetic variant in the NOVA1 protein may have played a key role in the emergence of human speech.

The Noonan lab at Yale University is focused on understanding how HARs contribute to the evolution of uniquely human brain features.

that interbred with modern day humans passed on some of their genes via multiple, distinct ... Nov. 1, 2024 — New research has found that, unlike birds, the evolution of bats' wings and legs is ...

A team of mathematicians and statisticians from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, the University of Tennessee and ...