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 ...

In this episode of Weekly podcast, we speak to three experts who study different ways that people are affecting how plants and animals evolve – and how humanity has become the single biggest driver of ...

Scientists at the University of Oregon uncovered a sex chromosome in the California two-spot octopus, dating back 480 million years, making it the oldest known. This discovery adds a new dimension to ...

The scale invariance in branch diameter dictates how much smaller a limb should be as it branches and how much investment a ...

But it’s never been clear what species the bones belonged to or where they should sit in an increasingly complex human family tree ... to solving one of human evolution’s biggest mysteries ...

Evolution is a master recycler. It often uses old structures (or ancient genes) for new jobs. The mammalian ear is a perfect example. Over the eons, the jawbones of our fish ancestors became three ...

But it’s never been clear what species the bones belonged to or where they should sit in an increasingly complex human family tree.Christopher Bae ... could hold the key to solving one of human ...

Examining the nature and origin of human intelligence and the intersection with machine intelligence in the past, present and (posited) future.

José leads us down a trail past trees laden with golden papayas ... Meat has played a starring role in the evolution of the human diet. Raymond Dart, who in 1924 discovered the first fossil ...

Cool new proggy sounds you from Lights Of Skadi, Sally Potter, Pearl Handled Revolver and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week ...

Climate change and habitat destruction are driving species to extinction at an alarming rate. The impact extends across all ...

The AG's Office announced it is filing a lawsuit to stop an executive order from the Trump administration that halts federal ...