Middle Tennessee State University biology researcher M. Elizabeth Barnes has collaborated on a study aimed at improving ...

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

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

A popular model of evolution concludes that it was incredibly unlikely for humanity to evolve on Earth, and that extraterrestrial intelligence is vanishingly rare. But as experts on the entangled ...

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

The story of human evolution in ancient past is said to be written in our modern bodies. In his book “Descent of Man,” Charles Darwin talks about vestigial structures. A vestigial structure is a body ...

Human genes that encode proteins often contain non-coding segments known as introns. Removing introns is crucial for the proper expression of genetic information. Understanding how our cells ...

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

Scientists found deep-sea shrimp evolved special vision to detect bioluminescent light and navigate their world.