Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

Why did humans evolve the eyes we have today? While scientists can't go back in time to study the environmental pressures ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andréa Morris reports on emergent intelligence in diverse systems. “Where are all the genetic cures?” asks Denis Noble, a ...

The researchers think the pattern they observed in ants reflects a more universal trend in the evolution of societal ...

Some ants thrive by choosing numbers over strength. Instead of heavily protecting each worker, they invest fewer resources in ...

A portrait of Charles Darwin taken in 1868 by noted photographer Julia Margaret Cameron. Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species was published in 1859. His theory of evolution by natural selection was ...

An excerpt from The Sacred Chain: How Understanding Evolution Leads to Deeper Faith. After my brief opening statement, the rest of our time was set aside for “discussion.” The two-hour meeting felt ...

Welcome to the SciFri Book Club page about Our Moon by Rebecca Boyle. You can read the book, join our community space, attend an event, sign up for our email newsletter, or send us a message via our ...

Some time, some place in the dark backward and abysm of time, the first “living” thing was created, and evolution began. But even the simplest organism is made up of enormously complicated chemical ...