Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to a new model for how intelligent life developed on Earth.

According to an alternative model of how intelligent life emerges on planets like Earth, the existence of aliens—and human ...

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

Two Distinct Groups Mated Over Hundreds and Thousands of Years to Give Us the Modern Humans Human evolution has always been a ...

In Greek mythology, a chimera is a grotesque hybrid. But chimeras are not just tales. Here's how some scientists have been ...

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 ...

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

Researchers analyzed human motivation from an evolutionary perspective, identifying 15 key motives that drive behavior.

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 ...

Scientists have found evidence that a sudden event in ancient forests gave rise to humankind’s early ancestors. The indirect ...

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.

Scientists have said that in a cosmos filled with trillions of stars, intelligent alien life will form ‘in only a matter of ...