An international collaboration has published groundbreaking research, shedding light on the most significant increase in complexity in the history of life's evolution on Earth: the origin of the ...

Scientists Uncover Key Mechanism in Evolution: Whole-Genome Duplication ... not only today but also at the time of the origin of life. So where was there sufficient phosphorus four billion years ...

It is why life takes "such endless forms most beautiful and wonderful," as British biologist Charles Darwin wrote in his famous 1859 book "On the Origin of Species." You can thank evolution for ...

Until now, it’s been very hard for scientists to establish a detailed timeline of the early evolution of bacteria.

A new suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to rewrite notions of time and evolution ... Have Given Life Its Molecular ...

New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the ...

This useful study presents computational analyses of over 5,000 predicted extant and ancestral nitrogenase structures. While the data and some analyses are solid, the study remains incomplete in ...

Geology and life have entwined throughout Earth's history. Rocks have become life. As rocks erode and flow into the oceans and weather into soil, their minerals provide vital nutrients that underpin ...

“Evolution isn't just a story about where ... millions more that have gone extinct over the 3.5-billion-year history of life on Earth––can be summarized in an enormous family tree.

More than a decade after his 'Origin of Species', Darwin found courage to publish ideas he had once only hinted at. In 'The Descent of Man' he presented an unequivocal account of human evolution.

These findings challenge conventional assumptions about the origins of multicellularity ... perkinsii, prompting a fresh look at the evolution of life’s complexity. University of Geneva Olivetta ...

"We took a step back in evolution, to when organisms were ... "So much work on the origin of multicellular life focuses on chemistry. We wanted to investigate the role of physical forces in ...