Humans and all other living beings that occupy the planet today are the products of 4.6 billion years of evolution on Earth Illustration for "L'atmosphère : météorologie populaire" by Nicolas Camille ...

Life evolved from simple geochemical processes present on the early Earth. However, the details of this transformation remain a mystery. In this study, researchers modeled the emergence of metabolic ...

A tree has something in common with the weeds and mushrooms growing around its roots, the squirrels scurrying up its trunk, the birds perched on its branches, and the photographer taking pictures of ...

In his new book The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Consciousness, renowned neuroscientist Joseph E. LeDoux takes a broad view of the history of life. He examines ...

The centerpiece of the Swedish Museum of Natural History, in Stockholm, is probably the Fossils and Evolution hall, in which an enormous Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton seems to yawn over crowds of ...

"This is the story of Earth like you’ve never seen it before—from the first spark of life to prehistoric monsters to the rise of humans… and all the weird stuff in between." We live on a magnificently ...

The History of Life A Complete Overview of the Evolution and Development of Life on Earth! House Unanimously Passes Bill To Shut Down Senator Payday Over Jan. 6 Probe Jeffrey Epstein's accountant of ...

Excerpted from "Hacking Life: Systematized Living and Its Discontents" by Joseph M. Reagle, Jr. (MIT Press, 2019). Reprinted with permission from MIT Press. Historian E. P. Thompson argues that ...

On a clear night earlier this year, the writer and scholar Saidiya Hartman was fidgeting in a cab on the way to MOMA PS1, the contemporary-art center in Queens. The museum was holding an event to ...