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.

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

PM. The exam was of moderate difficulty, with balanced questions across Physics, Chemistry, and Biology. Students who ...

for violating a recently enacted state law that forbade the state’s educators “to teach any theory that denies ... the improved treatment of evolution in state science standards, which specify ...

According to an alternative model of how intelligent life emerges on planets like Earth, the existence of aliens—and human ...

Beauty follows objective patterns in nature, guided by evolution and mathematics. The Fibonacci sequence and Golden Ratio ...

Stone-Age cannibalism, elephant seals act as deep sea sentinels, rabbits eat their own teeth, and our ears used to be gills.

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

A new study led by recent undergraduate student Caitlyn Nojiri and co-authored by astronomy and astrophysics professor Enrico ...

Proponents of Senate Bill 2355 say the theory that life on Earth was created by an intelligent designer should be taught in ...

The study titled "Chromosome-scale genome dynamics reveal signatures of independent haplotype evolution in the ancient asexual mite Platynothrus peltifer" was published in Science Advances.