The meaning of nature has shifted since the word was first used in the 15th century. But is changing the dictionary definition a good idea?
The Cambrian explosion, about 530 million years ago, was when most of the major groups of animals first appear in the fossil record.
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By learning what parts of the brain are crucial for imagination to work, neuroscientists can look back over hundreds of millions of years of evolution to figure out when it first emerged.
Svante Pääbo has won the Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for 2022.
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The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for 2022 has been awarded to Svante Pääbo, whose discoveries have been pivotal to the way we understand our evolutionary history.
There are concerns about how safe rainwater is to drink.
A new study finds more than one early human species lived on the landscape in Northern Tanzania 3.66 million years ago. But there are reasons to be cautious about the findings.
Three upright walkers, including Lucy (center) and two specimens of Australopithecus sediba, a human ancestor from South Africa dating back nearly 2 million years.
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If all of humanity was wiped out tomorrow, it’s estimated that the natural world would take at least five million years to recover from the damage humans have done to the world.
You don’t actually need language to think.
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