Tag Archives: evolution

Pope Francis, speaking at the Vatican, announce his belief in the Big Bang (I could hear the capitol letters in his voice) and evolution.

According to researchers, humans may have learned how to cook food as early as 2 million years ago.

Scientists have found rare, "life-creating" chemicals on deep space meteorites -- which lends new evidence to how humans may have come to be.

Microbiologists have discovered a simple kind of farming in the simplest social organisms�cooperative amoeba.

Wasteful predation might not be a mistake for the occasionally post-coitally cannibalistic black widow spider. Instead, having extra food around may help put a skittish potential mate's fears to rest.

In an interview with Elizabeth Kolbert, E. O. Wilson's warning: evolution has its times and its textures, and we risk making out its patterns too late.

The evolutionary ebb and flow of freedom, liberty, and the collective continues on the Web, as it has throughout the history of the public sphere.

We know about Archaeopteryx lithographica thanks to an image-making process found in the Earth's crust.

On the Indonesian island of Flores, researchers have discovered the remains of a giant bird that might have preyed on the mysterious and controversial Homo floresiensis, an extinct, diminutive close relative of modern humans.

To Kelly, the advance guard of the technium is to be found among the quadrillions of computer chips networked into vast electronic systems. But It may be difficult to discern whether the desires driving that process belong to technology, or are our own.