The story of human evolution in ancient past is said to be written in our modern bodies. In his book “Descent of Man,” Charles Darwin talks about vestigial structures. A vestigial structure is a body ...

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.

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That’s why scientists are intensifying efforts to learn what they can about an ancient diet and way of life before they disappear ... our direct ancestor, Homo erectus, took in enough ...

Humans evolved late in Earth history. While this timing inspired the conclusion that humanlike life is a cosmic improbability ...

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

The Bot-2-Bot paradigm is rapidly turning into an agent-to-agent one Network supremo Cisco is at the forefront of this evolutionary inflection point Agents will likely have their own language as ...

A perfectly preserved ancient tree fossil offered scientists an unprecedented view into a moment 42,000 years ago when the Earth’s magnetic field went haywire. The compelling 2021 study tells the ...

We have a natural fascination with time—how landscapes have been carved over millennia, how our bodies grow and sag with age, ...

Protein Shapes Can Help Untangle Life's Ancient History Jan. 15, 2025 — The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of ...

According to the experts, humans will look a lot more uniform in the future. They predict the average person will have darker ...

What’s your purpose in life? It’s a daunting question. But your answer may say a lot about your well-being. Studies link a sense of purpose to better physical and mental health. But your purpose isn’t ...