This academic has theorized about what would happen if humans became extinct and reveals who our successor would be.

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Nitrogen, upon which all life on Earth depends, may hold the key for explaining how early life on the planet evolved and how it could evolve on other planets.

For decades, many scientists have relied on the "hard steps" model to suggest that intelligent life is rare — the improbable result of a series of unlikely evolutionary leaps. But new research by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. All life on Earth can be traced back to a Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA. A study suggests that this organism likely ...

Reaching as tall as 26 feet and living over 400 million years ago, this giant life form represented a branch in the evolution ...

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The impact of the asteroid in present-day Yucatan wiped out almost all life on Earth. It recovered faster than previously ...

A composite view of the Earth constructed by NASA from multiple satellite images Editor at Large Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and ...

Comparison of planetary atmospheres : Mars, Venus, and Earth / Michael McElroy -- Cosmochemical evolution and the origins of life / Cyril Ponnamperuma -- Origin of life : polymers before monomers? / ...

Studies looking at how sponges have evolved on a molecular level have suggested that spicules should be present over 700 ...

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