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In the oceans and on land, scientists are discovering rare, transitional organisms that bridge the gap between Earth’s simplest cells and today’s complex ones.

A new study explains how climbing down trees helped shape upright posture in early primates and changed the course of evolution.

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The evolution of human hands is one of the most important – and overlooked – stories of our origin. Now, new fossil evidence ...

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The curious minds at What If compress the evolution of humans into just 20 minutes, exploring adaptation, migration, and future evolution.

Performance in museums can be one way that an interest in history, and in turn wider societal issues, is cultivated from a young age.

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Since ancient times, people have reported seeing the same kinds of figures during altered states of consciousness. A psychologist interested in this phenomenon thinks it could connect to another old ...

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