Human newborns arrive remarkably underdeveloped. The reason lies in a deep evolutionary trade-off between big brains, bipedalism and the limits of motherhood.

Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection transformed biology and continues to guide modern science, from ...

We humans have long viewed ourselves as the pinnacle of evolution. People label other species as “primitive” or “ancient” and ...

Life’s story may stretch further back than scientists once thought. Some genes found in nearly every organism today were already duplicated before all life shared a common ancestor. By tracking these ...

All life on Earth shares a common ancestor that lived roughly four billion years ago. This so-called "last universal common ...

Scientists call this speck LUCA — the Last Universal Common Ancestor. Since the concept of LUCA first emerged, it has ...

An international study investigating the genomic diversity of the Sudanese population reveals that the Copts originating in ...

Princeton professor Corina Tarnita engaged in frequent communication with Epstein and arranged wire transfers on his behalf.

In recognition of International Day of Women and Girls in Science (IDWGS) on February 11, 2026, SFU spoke to two Canada ...

Ancient duplicated genes are giving scientists their first real clues about what life was like before all life on Earth ...

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Lipstick vines in Taiwan look different from their red-flowered relatives. When scientists dug into the family tree, they ...