At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

An international collaboration between four scientists from Mainz, Valencia, Madrid, and Zurich has published new research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shedding light on the ...

A long-disputed rule in biology says bigger is better, but a new computer model illuminates why that’s not necessarily true. By Lauren Leffer Published Jan 18, 2024 11:45 AM EST Get the Popular ...

Evolution is traditionally associated with a process of increasing complexity and gaining new genes. However, the explosion of the genomic era shows that gene loss and simplification is a much more ...

This is one of the weirdest mysteries of human evolution: Why do we have grandmas? From menopause to our slow maturation and super-long lifespans, humans are quite unique in the animal kingdom. Could ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — We might have plenty of human-like neighbors among the stars after all, despite decades of scientific thinking about humanity’s place in the universe suggesting otherwise. A ...

Joseph L. Graves Jr. offers a memoir and more in ‘A Voice in the Wilderness’ It’s both good and bad that the first Black American to earn a Ph.D. in evolutionary biology is not a long-ago hidden ...

The final film in James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy brought us back to the start of Rocket’s story. His transformation from a normal baby raccoon into a cybernetically-enhanced super genius ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 1966’s Thor #133 marks the first reference to the High Evolutionary in Marvel Comics. He would make his debut on the page in the ...