Discoveries in Human evolution never cease to be exciting and the latest talk of the anthropology fraternity is the discovery of a new human species in China. Dating back almost 300,000 years ago, the ...

Consider three big examples: the evidence for cosmic design in the fundamental laws and structure of the universe; the ...

Hominid footprints found on Crete date back 5.6 million years, making them by far the oldest ever discovered in Europe.

In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone ...

R1, which led to Nvidia losing nearly $600 billion in a day. This breakthrough highlighted AI's potential, reminiscent of ...

Jan. 22, 2025 — Is there only one optimal configuration an organism can reach during evolution? Is there a single formula that describes the trajectory towards the optimum? And can we 'derive ...

It’s suppertime in the Amazon of lowland Bolivia, and Ana Cuata Maito is stirring a porridge of plantains and sweet manioc over a fire smoldering on the dirt floor of her thatched hut, listening ...

Experimental evolution is the use of laboratory or controlled field manipulations to investigate evolutionary processes. It usually makes use of organisms with rapid generation times and small ...

Molecular evolution is the area of evolutionary biology that studies evolutionary change at the level of the DNA sequence. It includes the study of rates of sequence change, relative importance of ...