Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to a new model for how intelligent life developed on Earth.

“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...

Darwin's theory of natural selection provides an explanation for why organisms develop traits that help them survive and reproduce. Because of this, death is often seen as a failure rather than a ...

Darwin's theory of natural selection provides an explanation for why organisms develop traits that help them survive and reproduce.

A recent study presents a new way to understand life by describing it as a cascade of machines producing machines, spanning ...

Neurobiological emergentism” explains how sentience—the subjective feeling aspects of consciousness—developed in ancient ...

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

For decades, scientists believed that intelligent life was a rare cosmic accident. A new study challenges that idea, arguing ...

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

Transportation theory is the mathematical study of the ... For example, we investigate the evolution of cells during mouse embryogenesis by aligning measurements of gene expression from various ...

Researchers have made the surprising discovery that a type of gut bacteria has evolved to use one of their enzymes to perform an important function after death. Darwin’s theory of natural selection ...

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