Despite what our ego might lead us to think, humans are still a work in progress. We’re constantly adapting to our ...

What makes the human brain unique? A Yale study unlocks new insights into genetic changes that shaped our evolution.

Scientists Found a Paradox in Evolution—and It May Become the Next ... “ESM3 takes a step toward a future of biology where AI is a tool to engineer from first principles, the way we engineer ...

In a new study published in Science, a Belgian research team explores how genetic switches controlling gene activity define ...

A new study suggests that the NOVA1 gene may have been a key player in the evolution of human language. By Carl Zimmer Scientists have long struggled to understand how human language evolved.

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.

The consumption of animal resources, especially meat, is considered a crucial turning point in human evolution ... Planck institute for Chemistry. "This work represents a huge step in extending ...

A new study links a particular gene to the ancient origins of spoken language, proposing that a protein variant found only in ...

When evolution skeptics want to attack Darwin's theory, they often point to the human eye ... Difficult, but not impossible. Scientists have come up with scenarios through which the first eye ...