Neurobiological emergentism” explains how sentience—the subjective feeling aspects of consciousness—developed in ancient animals that evolved the first complex neural systems.

The London Eye was transformed into a giant projector screen last night to mark the launch of Samsung's new Galaxy S25 series ...

Scientists have traced the evolutionary origin of humans' outer ears to the gills of ancient fish through a series of gene-editing experiments.

Scientists have decided to seek answers to the question of where romantic love comes from and why it was promoted in human ...

"Men's gains in height and weight are more than double those of women's, increasing sexual size dimorphism," the researchers ...

Three-million-year-old tools found in Kenya reveal early humans' ability to cut food, butcher meat, and adapt to new diets.

Evolution has been known as survival of the fittest, however the fittest may also have been simply the luckiest. Though genetics are a driving force of evolution, many evolutionary changes were a ...

We’ve no way of knowing,” he says. No one predicted that ancient primates would slowly turn into bipedal humans with advanced technology. Coulson believes that “random mutations, unforeseen extinction ...

Some may think of it as organizing an old family photo album where some pictures are blurry or hard to identify ... work is important because it helps scientists—and the rest of us—better understand ...

But scientists have long assumed that bacteria can’t survive in the human brain. The powerful blood-brain barrier, the thinking goes, keeps the organ mostly free from outside invaders.

Further back in evolution, two babies at once was the norm. Our ancient primate ancestors gave birth to twins. Modern humans overwhelmingly birth just a single child — a rather large child with ...

In contrast, humans do not simply accumulate knowledge ... The concept of openness not only redefines our understanding of cultural evolution, but also raises key questions about our future.