In the first 20 million years of the Cambrian period, Earth experienced an explosion of life—a great evolutionary era dubbed ...

How and where did the first forms of life arise? These are the main questions driving research at the Institute of Molecular Evolution at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU). In a new ...

Neuroscientist Nikolay Kukushkin spoke to Live Science about how human consciousness evolved.

In The Horse, Chris Packham traces over half a billion years of evolutionary innovation to reveal how one animal became one ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to a new model for how intelligent life developed on Earth. The model, which ...

CELEBRATED palaeontologist Stephen Jay Gould once wondered what would happen if we could rewind the tape of life. If it were possible to turn the clock back half a billion years and then let evolution ...

We know that Darwinian evolution acts on all forms of life, but does evolution act on non-living materials as well? Otto and his team used a system of three different self-replicating molecules, that, ...

Oxygen played a key role in the evolution of complex organisms, according to new research published in BMC Evolutionary Biology. The study shows that the complexity of life forms increased earlier ...

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 ...

Deep oceans contain microbes with yet-to-be-discovered properties that could drive future innovations in biotechnology.