An 11,000-year-old Indigenous settlement found in Saskatchewan reshapes the understanding of North American civilizations.

“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to a new model for how intelligent life developed on Earth.

A new study rewrites the story of human evolution, suggesting that intelligent life is not rare but a natural planetary ...

On Darwin Day, 12 February 2025, the Darwin Online project at the National University of Singapore (NUS) launches the largest ...

Darwin's theory of natural selection provides an explanation for why organisms develop traits that help them survive and reproduce. Because of this, death is often seen as a failure rather than a ...

Researchers from Penn State University proposed in a new academic paper that human-like lifeforms could arise as a logical consequence of a planet’s development — contradicting the long-held “hard ...

Darwin's theory of natural selection provides an explanation for why organisms develop traits that help them survive and reproduce.

Religious dogma clashed with early science, but fossils and discoveries reshaped humanity’s understanding of Earth’s history.

In a nutshell New research challenges the long-held belief that human evolution required improbable “lucky breaks,” ...

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

For decades, scientists believed that intelligent life was a rare cosmic accident. A new study challenges that idea, arguing ...