A popular model of evolution concludes that it was incredibly unlikely for humanity to evolve on Earth, and that extraterrestrial intelligence is van ...

Lucy Gray Baird has a long-lasting impact in The Hunger Games universe. However, she wasn't mentioned in the original trilogy.

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to ...

In this episode of Weekly podcast, we speak to three experts who study different ways that people are affecting how plants and animals evolve – and how humanity has become the single biggest driver of ...

The field of evolution examines how organisms adapt to their environments over generations, but what about the evolution of ...

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

Scientists found that evolution itself can evolve. Organisms exposed to changing environments develop a better ability to ...

Yet only “Gray Tree” has scale-invariant branch diameters. When Mondrian removes the scale invariance in “Blooming Apple Tree ...

The Wollemi Pine’s bark looks like bubbling chocolate—but its real secret? It’s a 200-million-year-old survivor from the age ...

The scale invariance in branch diameter dictates how much smaller a limb should be as it branches and how much investment a tree makes in a few thick branches versus many thin ones. Trees have evolved ...