At the new “Explore Evolution” museum exhibit in Kansas, visitors pass a banner showing the face of a girl next to the face of a chimpanzee for a lesson on how the two are “cousins in life’s family ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Across the sciences, rules and laws help us make sense of the world around us, whether applied to cosmic scales or subatomic ones. However, in the ...

Humans really do rule the world. We took over fast and far, more than any other wild vertebrates. We inhabit nearly every ...

Ryan Smith, director of the Iowa State University Entomology Laboratory, examines mosquitoes collected for research on mosquito-borne diseases. The specimens help researchers monitor virus ...

All complex biological systems—like the DNA, RNA and proteins constantly being copied and built within our cells—are prone to errors. That means as life evolved to be more elaborate, it also had to ...

But animal species seemed more discrete, at least for a while. Most zoologists supported the biological species concept proposed in 1942 by the legendary biologist Ernst Mayr, who was one of the ...

The molecular clock theory posits that genetic changes happen steadily and gradually, offering a reliable means for peering into the past and theorizing when complex life first emerged. However, there ...

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Recent research has unveiled an unexpected link between the ancient human exposure to lead and the evolutionary development of our brains. This groundbreaking study, conducted by scientists at Arizona ...

Dr. Marcus Hale, a physicist at the University of Cambridge, has proposed a fascinating theory that could potentially revolutionize our understanding of interstellar travel. In a 2023 paper published ...

It may have fewer than many of the other sciences, but biology does have two dozen or so “rules”—broad generalizations about the behavior or nature and evolution. Now, USC researchers want to add a ...