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

The extinction of the largest dinosaurs to walk the Earth may have played a critical role in creating an environment that ...

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

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to ...

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

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Scientists challenge the idea that intelligent life is rare. They argue that evolution follows planetary changes, not random ...

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

Scientists have found evidence that a sudden event in ancient forests gave rise to humankind’s early ancestors. The indirect ...

In the spirit of “everything is connected,” a new study found that the extinction of the dinosaurs paved the way for the emergence of fruit, which nourished our primate ancestors. Tapping into this ...

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 ...