The more species of Homo there were, the higher the rate of speciation. So when those niches got filled, something drove even more species to emerge. This is almost unparalleled in evolutionary ...

A new, enormous family tree for all of humanity attempts to summarize ... also published in the journal Science on Thursday. So, in the future, when more data become available, such analyses ...

Centuries after Leonardo da Vinci died far from his Tuscany homeland, pieces of his life — his sketches, his scribbles, his ...

The dinosaur family tree, used by paleontologists and dinosaur ... "It just didn't quite add up," he told Live Science. After talking with his adviser, Baron changed his doctoral thesis research ...

Scientists have identified a new pod of ancient people who lived near the land bridge between North America and South America ...

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For more than five centuries, Leonardo Da Vinci has been celebrated as a visionary artist, scientist, and inventor, known for ...

The sunflower family tree revealed that flower symmetry evolved ... professor of biology in the Eberly College of Science at Penn State and the leader of the research team. "This can make it ...

Anthropologists have pieced together the most complete Stone Age family tree so far, spanning seven generations of relatives. Genetic studies of the remains of dozens of people in one burial site ...

An analysis of the sloth family tree suggests three different groups of the animals evolved to gigantic sizes in response to ...