Over 500 million years ago, during the Cambrian period, all major animal phyla appeared rapidly in what is known as the ...

Humans have it. So does Drosophila. But not yeast. That "it" is a small pause at the start of gene activity—a brief molecular halt that may have helped life evolve from simple cells to complex animals ...

A study by Kristin Winchell (NYU) sequenced the genomes of these reptiles and found 93 specific genes related to limb and skin development that had diverged from forest populations. The city lizards ...

Mind-blowing science books offer a staggering look at the secret logic of fungi, the evolution of the human mind, and the ...

Nancy Shute talks about life’s complexities, from its evolution on Earth as a single cell to complex human behavior.

The researchers think the pattern they observed in ants reflects a more universal trend in the evolution of societal ...

In October, the International Society for Artificial Life recognized several SFI researchers and co-authors with the ISAL ...

This article is a summary of Roy Ratcliffe’s recently released book ‘Life on Earth’ (Past, Present and Future)’. Of all the millions of species of life that have existed on earth over billions of ...

A research team led by Prof. Zhu Min—a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and affiliated with the CAS Institute ...

A 410-million-year-old lungfish fossil from China reveals a key link, offering new insight into how early vertebrates ...

Up-to-date computational pipeline characterizes G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) repertoires in the closest relatives of metazoans, providing a framework to investigate the evolutionary origins and ...

The discovery marks a significant moment for a theory that was once dismissed as fringe science but is now gaining serious scientific traction. Panspermia is far from a modern invention. The concept ...