Highly valued economically, ecologically and culturally, the white oak (Quercus alba) is a keystone forest species and is one of the most abundant trees across much of eastern North America. It also ...

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.

Jean-Jacques Hublin discovered Homo sapiens fossils that pushed back our species’ origins by 100,000 years. Now, in a new book, The Tyranny of the Brain, the French paleoanthropologist traces the ...

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 ...

Every few hundred thousand years, Earth’s magnetic poles flip, turning north into south and south into north. These ...

A wintry mess was bearing down on mid-Atlantic states Tuesday with forecasts of significant snow and ice accumulations prompting warnings of potential power outages. The National Weather Service said ...

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

A paleontologist journeys through Indonesia’s Riau Archipelago in search of our earliest ancestors, and uncovers how ...

Scientists say a new, never-before seen species of human ancestor roamed the Earth as recently as one million years ago.

Researchers from the University of Aix-Marseille studied the genomes of several ancient individuals—Neanderthals, Denisovans, and Homo sapiens. The study reveals that Neanderthals possessed a ...

A genetic tree shows blood group alleles among Upper Paleolithic Homo sapiens, Neanderthals, and Denisovans. Credit: S. Mezières et al. While this interbreeding contributed to genetic diversity in ...

And it brought to life a debate that has been rattling on ever since ... The animals themselves may not care, but biodiversity is the key here – something that only Homo sapiens can perceive.