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

Walk into consciousness labs, and you will mostly find studies on humans relying on verbal reports. This evidence is then ...

It all began with a bold question: What if evolution could be simulated in a lab? At the intersection of artificial ...

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

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to ...

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

A long-disputed rule in biology says bigger is better, but a new computer model illuminates why that’s not necessarily true. By Lauren Leffer Published Jan 18, 2024 11:45 AM EST Get the Popular ...

Every living being must cope with a changing world—summer gives way to winter, one year it floods and the next is a drought.

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

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A new book by biblical scholar Dr. Dru Johnson, visiting associate professor of religion at Hope College, moves beyond the either-or debate in exploring what the Bible and evolutionary science say ...