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How animals of the Cambrian period experienced the Cambrian Explosion, which shaped life today and could help researchers ...

Research led by the University of Auckland has cast light on the evolutionary origins of one of nature's first motors, which ...

Although we humans have changed our environment in many ways during the past few thousand years, we are still changed by evolution. We have not stopped evolving, but we are evolving right now in ...

For decades, scientists have been baffled by two enormous, enigmatic structures buried deep inside Earth with features so ...

For decades, many scientists have relied on the "hard steps" model to suggest that intelligent life is rare — the improbable result of a series of unlikely evolutionary leaps. But new research by ...

The brain wants peace and predictability, but dopamine drives us to seek out and solve new problems. We’re built to be ...