Less, but more: A new evolutionary scenario marked by massive gene loss and expansion
Evolution is traditionally associated with a process of increasing complexity and gaining new genes. However, the explosion ...
Art and science illuminate the same subtle proportions in tree branches
The scale invariance in branch diameter dictates how much smaller a limb should be as it branches and how much investment a ...
Psychology Today2h
Computer Models of How Ideas Evolve and How We Became Creative
A million years ago, when everything we encountered was shaped solely by forces of nature, something that began as a spark of ...
Science Daily21h
Boosting evolution: How humans unintentionally altered the skulls of pigs
Short snouts and a flat profile -- within a span of 100 years, humans have significantly changed the shape of the skulls of German domestic pigs. This is likely down to new breeding practices ...
Her Discovery Wasn’t Alien Life, but Science Has Never Been the Same
The internet erupted in controversy over Felisa Wolfe-Simon and colleagues’ claim of a microbe thriving on arsenic. Nearly 15 ...
New Scientist4h
Fossil proteins may soon reveal how we're related to Australopithecus
Australopithecus came before us, but that doesn't tell us which specific individual species is our ancestor. The fossil ...
Frontiers2h
Prehistory to Present: The Evolution of Human Diets and Nutritional Ecology
Human diets have evolved through a complex interplay of biological, environmental, and cultural factors from the Pleistocene era to the present day. This ...