Life depends on genes being switched on and off at exactly the right time. Even the simplest living organisms do this, but usually over short distances across the DNA sequence, with the on/off switch ...

Regional Science City's Prehistoric Life Park reopens on International Museum Day with a sound-and-light show and new ...

Eukaryogenesis occurred suddenly, driven by the growing length of genes and the limitations on producing longer proteins. An ...

A discovery by scientists at Scripps Research and the Georgia Institute of Technology could shed light on the evolution of ...

A special issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B takes a bold step toward redefining one of the most ...

Your teeth play important roles in your daily life, but have you ever wondered how humans evolved to have them? Skin scales ...

Wild chimpanzees alter the meaning of single calls when embedding them into diverse call combinations, mirroring linguistic operations in human language. Human language, however, allows an infinite ...

In addition, three separate talks on human origins will explore the Catholic Church’s views on evolution. On the society’s website, the SCS describes itself as an answer to the call of St ...

The biodiversity of Earth's oceans is disproportionately concentrated in coral reefs—the vibrant undersea ecosystems where ...

The complete archive, comprising over 20,000 items, includes Darwin’s records illustrating the development of his ground-breaking theory of evolution ... breaking On the Origin of Species ...

Led by Uppsala & Flinders universities, the study published in Nature credits citizen science for the find & suggests ...