A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

The tree of life maps out the relationships between all living things, and it's in constant flux.

Maybe that same intolerance is why those other now-extinct human species disappeared about the same time Homo sapiens showed up. But who knows, if we blurred the line between us and the rest of the ...

They may have unimaginable chemistries, shapes, sizes, colors, appendages and opinions. We are not requiring that they follow the particular route that led to the evolution of humans.

In Charles Darwin ’s world-changing work On the Origin of Species, the naturalist make use of the millennia-old metaphor in which all life is represented by a tree. He writes that “the ...

“It is changing the trajectory of evolution globally and destroying the conditions that make human life possible,” said a new study.

A new analysis of mass extinction at the genus level, from researchers at Stanford and the National Autonomous University of Mexico, finds a “mutilation of the tree of life” with massive ...

Ben Crair on the hoatzin, the bird that is seemingly defying the concept behind the tree of life; B10K, a research group that is trying to sequence the genome of every species of bird; and DNA ...

Human-Driven Mass Extinction Is Eliminating Entire Branches of the Tree of Life A new analysis of mass extinction at the genus level finds a “mutilation of the tree of life” with massive potential ...

If we climb the evolutionary tree of life, we can follow a twisting path that visits the increasingly specialised branches that a species belongs to.