Extraterrestrial and artificial life have long captivated the human mind. Knowing only the ... brain science, ecology, and evolution, the paper concludes that certain fundamental limits prevent ...

This video segment from NOVA: "Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial" reveals how genetic evidence helped to confirm an important component of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the ...

Researchers discovered how genetic switches shaped human brain evolution by fine-tuning shared gene expression.

Human health may be getting a big boost from the bits and bytes of computer science. In particular, artificial intelligence (AI) machine learning models are helping to unravel the mysteries of the ...

Human genetic diversity and evolution rely on new mutations and exchange of DNA between chromosomes during the generation of sex cells, in a process called recombination. Recombination manifests ...