A new theory suggests windows of opportunity, not a series of improbable events may have helped humans gain a foothold in the ...

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

“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...

The research proposes that the emergence of humanity on Earth was not as improbable as previously thought, potentially ...

New theory proposes that humans — and analogous life beyond Earth — may represent the probable outcome of biological and planetary evolution ... the likelihood of human-like beings beyond ...

Beauty follows objective patterns in nature, guided by evolution and mathematics. The Fibonacci sequence and Golden Ratio ...

Researchers from Penn State University proposed in a new academic paper that human-like lifeforms could arise as a logical consequence of a planet’s development — contradicting the long-held “hard ...

In the spirit of “everything is connected,” a new study found that the extinction of the dinosaurs paved the way for the emergence of fruit, which nourished our primate ancestors. Tapping into this ...

Initially developed by theoretical physicist Brandon Carter in 1983, the “hard steps” model argues that our evolutionary ...

In a world increasingly shaped by secularism and scientific empiricism, a paradox emerges: the enduring belief that history has direction, meaning and purpose—a secularized form of providentialism.

Aliens probably look just like we do, a new study suggests. This is because scientists now believe life on Earth evolved in a ...