“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to ...

A new theory suggests windows of opportunity, not a series of improbable events may have helped humans gain a foothold in the ...

A new study rewrites the story of human evolution, suggesting that intelligent life is not rare but a natural planetary ...

Initially developed by theoretical physicist Brandon Carter in 1983, the “hard steps” model argues that our evolutionary ...

Aliens probably look just like we do, a new study suggests. This is because scientists now believe life on Earth evolved in a ...

For decades, scientists believed that intelligent life was a rare cosmic accident. A new study challenges that idea, arguing ...

Humans evolved late in Earth history. While this timing inspired the conclusion that humanlike life is a cosmic improbability ...

A new model upends the decades-old “hard steps” theory that intelligent life was an incredibly improbable event and suggests that maybe it wasn't all that hard or improbable. The team of researchers ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to ...

During the late 18th century, a flurry of social, political and economic changes offered many a new vision of personal ...

In a nutshell New research challenges the long-held belief that human evolution required improbable “lucky breaks,” ...