The domestication of maize is one of the greatest examples of humankind's impact on evolution. Early farmers' pre-industrial plant breeding choices turned corn from a nearly inedible crop into the ...

The Dawn of Mankind Our journey begins in the depths of time, where our earliest ancestors roamed the earth. These ...

The future lies not in identifying people but in ensuring they are human. The AI age necessitates a new paradigm for proof of ...

Leveraging the power of large language models, evolutionary biologists have successfully simulated 500 million years of evolution. Called the EvolutionaryScale Model 3, or ESM3, this multimodal ...

Evolution is often portrayed as a forward-moving natural force. Even the famous 1965 illustration of human evolution—from Pliopithecus to Modern Man—is known as the “March of Progress.” But of course, ...

This review focuses on intergenerational and transgenerational epigenetic inheritance in different plants, animal species and humans, presenting the up-to-date evidence and arguments for such effects ...

This innovation paved the way for the development of more complex tools and behaviors, and ultimately shaped the course of human evolution. Plummer told CBS News that alongside these tools they also ...

Homo erectus was able to adapt to and survive in desert-like environments at least 1.2 million years ago, according to a paper published in Communications Earth & Environment. The findings suggest ...

Mercader, who studies human evolution, explains that the archaeological research was done at Olduvai Gorge, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Tanzania. "By doing archeology, what we can see is that ...

In Doctor Who, an alien species called the Silurians exists – technologically-advanced humanoid reptiles who lived long before humans, going into hiding and being basically undiscovered again ...

But humans live pretty much everywhere ... scale climate models to figure out what conditions were like during our evolution. Their models, like the new study, suggest that Homo erectus may ...

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