A new theory suggests windows of opportunity, not a series of improbable events may have helped humans gain a foothold in the ...
Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to ...
A new study rewrites the story of human evolution, suggesting that intelligent life is not rare but a natural planetary ...
Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...
Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is ...
The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...
Initially developed by theoretical physicist Brandon Carter in 1983, the “hard steps” model argues that our evolutionary ...
“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...
In a nutshell New research challenges the long-held belief that human evolution required improbable “lucky breaks,” ...
We suggest that as the Earth changed physically and chemically over time, its surface conditions allowed for a greater diversity of habitats for life. And these changes operate on geologic timescales ...
Synthetic cells that look just like natural cells but are chemically reversed could outcompete other living organisms − with ...
Scientists have revealed a new model which suggests humanity is the "natural evolutionary outcome" for our planet and is not ...