In a recent op-ed in PNAS, SFI External Professor Michael Hochberg and co-author Paul Rainey explore whether deepening interdependence between humans and AI could lead to a new form of evolutionary ...

Are humans evolving more through culture than DNA? A new study explores how medicine, technology, and institutions may guide ...

Recently, in a “wild” new spin on the theory, known as directed panspermia, it’s been suggested that “aliens sent microbes or ...

Often referred to as the ‘gold of the North’, Baltic amber serves as an exceptional natural time capsule, preserving a ...

One of the most momentous events started in November 2013 when lava began erupting out of a vent on the seafloor just southeast of the island. As the molten rock cooled and solidified, it formed a ...

A team from the University of Illinois has uncovered surprising evolutionary links between the genetic code and tiny protein ...

The fish that limbed vertebrates evolved from don't have obvious digit equivalents, and the most common types of fish just ...

What makes every person unique? Part of the answer is in our genes.

Scientists are re-examining whether genetic changes remain the primary catalyst of human evolution, or if another factor has become more influential.

The evolutionary blueprint for hands was borrowed in part from a much older genetic plan for our nether regions, a new study ...

Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make ...