5 fun facts about evolution The last common ancestor of all life on Earth is estimated to have existed around 4.2 billion years ago. There are three ingredients necessary for natural selection to ...

Save The Date (s): SciFri Book Club Events When the Earth Was Green: Livestream and Q&A with Riley Black Billions of years ago, plant life was abundant and diverse, and the evolution of animals was ...

Excerpted from "Infinite Life: The Story of Eggs, Evolution, and Life on Earth" by Jules Howard. Published by Pegasus Books, Sept. 3,, 2024.

BECOMING EARTH: How Our Planet Came to Life. By Ferris Jabr. Random House. 304 pages. $30. Life does not simply exist on Earth. It is Earth. Life is the anatomy, the physiology, the very breath of ...

Credit: N. Kaib/PSI. Stars that pass by our solar system have altered the long-term orbital evolution of planets, including Earth, and, by extension, modified our climate.

It is why life takes "such endless forms most beautiful and wonderful," as British biologist Charles Darwin wrote in his famous 1859 book " On the Origin of Species." You can thank evolution for ...