Taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate are two characteristics that distinguish modern humans from non-human primates. A genetic variant that helped these traits co-evolve was discovered by ...

These human ancestors would have had plenty to take advantage of near these ancient rivers. Trees bore fruit all year, and ...

The Scopes “monkey trial” garnered international attention, and the battle that was fought continues in some form in other ...

One’s a cat, the other’s a dog, separated by 50 million years of evolution. But when evolutionary biologist Abby Grace Drake and her colleagues scanned 1,810 skulls of cats, dogs and their ...

Larson said the rhetorical style favored by Darrow and honed by Bryan had periodically resurfaced in American politics as folks sought to capture the public’s imagination about the risk of teaching ...

The new research could upend what’s known of the evolution of the most primitive ... to our understanding of how mammals (including humans) came to be. “Monotremes are these living relics ...

This redefinition has immediate consequences for how technological systems are conceived. Intelligent technologies are not simply instruments to be used or abandoned at will; they are active ...

Research is shedding new light on how– and why– humans lost their fur, offering fresh insights into the story of our evolution.

A new collaboration between University of California Merced and Adobe offers an advance on the state-of-the-art in human image completion – the much-studied task of ‘de-obscuring' occluded or hidden ...

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