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

Picture a primordial Earth: a world of muted browns, grays and greens. Fast forward to today, and Earth teems with a ...

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

Humans have evolved an exceptionally high metabolic rate, unlike any other known animal. Unlike primates that conserve energy ...

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

Researchers from Penn State University proposed in a new academic paper that human-like lifeforms could arise as a logical consequence of a planet’s development — contradicting the long-held “hard ...

A new theory suggests windows of opportunity, not a series of improbable events may have helped humans gain a foothold in the ...

A million years ago, when everything we encountered was shaped solely by forces of nature, something that began as a spark of ...

Initially developed by theoretical physicist Brandon Carter in 1983, the “hard steps” model argues that our evolutionary ...

Researchers discovered how genetic switches shaped human brain evolution by fine-tuning shared gene expression.