Peter Thiel hesitated when asked if he thinks the human race should survive. The question came up during the Interesting ...

The race to explain how humans became what we are now was well and truly on. Since then, ... The story of human evolution is ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts—from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and ...

But the high probability of deleterious effects means natural selection favors the evolution of mechanisms to prevent jumping events. Scientists estimate that jumping genes or “transposable elements” ...

It is to be regretted that geology has not been able to do more than this; could it but succeed in the construction of a scale of past time, what fascinating prospects in the study of evolution ...

Ten years ago, while at the university of Western Australia, anthropologist Nina Jablonski was asked to give a lecture on human skin. As an expert in primate evolution, she decided to discuss the ...

Humans Never Stopped Evolving. The emergence of blood abnormalities, an adult ability to digest milk, and changes in our physical appearance point to the continued evolution of the human race.

Several scientists have shed light on the evolution of the human race with their wisdom, analytical knack, and research, but some of them are still remembered as milestones in the gigantic world ...

Human evolution is the part of biological evolution concerning the emergence of humans as a distinct species. It is the subject of a broad scientific inquiry that seeks to understand and describe ...

The nature of human evolution has to change.” The study was published Monday in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the world’s longest-running science journal.

Hawking’s comment to the BBC in 2014 that AI could “spell the end of the human race” was in response to a question about potentially revamping the voice technology he relied on. He told the ...

The distribution of human genetic diversity: A comparison of mitochondrial, autosomal, and Y-chromosome data. American Journal of Human Genetics 66, 979–988 (2000) doi:10.1086/302825. Lewontin ...