The arrangement of bones in our specimen’s fins are the same as those of ‘fingers’ in tetrapods. The only difference is the digits are locked within the fin, and not free moving.
Amber holds the secret to the tiny world of the age of dinosaurs.
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The skull of Oculudentavis, found encased in amber, provides new clues into the transition from dinosaurs to birds and may be smallest of either ever found.
Men’s level of involvement in parenting is often tied to social norms about monogamy.
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Early humans in Africa may have interbred with a ghost population that likely split from the ancestors of humans and Neanderthals between 360,000 and 1.02 million years ago.
Parsons chameleon, Calumma parsonii, in Andasibe - Analamazaotra National Park, Madagascar.
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Through genetic detective work, scientists have identified missing links in the tomato’s evolution from a wild blueberry-sized fruit in South America to the larger modern tomato of today.
We propose same-sex attraction evolved to allow greater social integration and stronger same-sex social bonds.
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Scientists don’t ask how some people evolved to be tall. In the same way, asking how homosexuality evolved is the wrong question. We need to ask how human sexuality evolved in all its forms.
Mosses are among the closest living relatives to Earth’s first land plants.
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A quirk of psychology that affects the way people learn from others may have helped unlock the complicated technologies and rituals that human culture hinges on.
The site at Ngandong held the remains of the last known members of the ancient human species Homo erectus.