A new study shows cultural evolution helped humans expand across Earth far faster than genetic change alone could achieve.

Roughly 2.5 million years ago, a nearby star exploded. Around the same time, the diversity of viruses infecting fish in Africa’s Lake Tanganyika rose dramatically. Three researchers from the ...

My colleague and I have published a new study of cactus flowers which may help explain the conundrum. For more than a century ...

Dear EarthTalk: Are any plants and animals evolving backward by incorporating traits that they lost long ago? -- Joseph R., ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Evolution, the process of change, governs life on Earth − and potentially different forms of life in other places. Just_Super/E+ ...

Over the course of nearly five months in 2022, NASA's Perseverance rover collected rock samples from Mars that could rewrite the history of water on the red planet and even contain evidence for past ...

Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and steadily began to ...

We have only one example of biology forming in the universe – life on Earth. But what if life can form in other ways? How do you look for alien life when you don’t know what alien life might look like ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. In "One Hand Clapping," Nikolay Kukushkin traces the origin of human consciousness from the ...