The oldest fossilised remains of complex animals appear suddenly in the fossil record, and as if from nowhere, in rocks that ...

Madsen’s take was all the more provocative given his former shop’s resort-oriented, NTN facing. Though the store sold a wide ...

This 30-million-year-long gap is actually rather helpful to Darwin. It means that there was plenty of time for the ancestor ...

For decades, the story seemed settled: one early human species left Africa and spread across the world. But a new study ...

The companies that define the next decade may not be the ones that cling to their original sectors. They might be the ones ...

Biologists are closing in on a puzzle that seems to turn classic evolutionary logic inside out, yet may be so common that it ...

The origins of consciousness date back about 540 million years ago, when animal bodies became more complex. Feelings like ...

Colorado’s evolution from a “limited gaming” state to one that’s increasingly open to gambling began when voters approved a ...

Environmental change doesn’t affect evolution in a single, predictable way. In large-scale computer simulations, scientists ...

"The Giant Leap," by astrobiologist Caleb Scharf, is an optimistic account of our widening journey into the cosmos.

A major evolutionary theory says most genetic changes don’t really matter, but new evidence suggests that’s not true. Researchers found that helpful mutations happen surprisingly often. The twist is ...

The ideas presented in George Lakoff and Srini Narayanan's The Neural Mind are fascinating, but the writing is far less compelling ...