A long-running and bitterly fought dispute over whether the earliest known hominin had a knuckle-walking gait, like ...

In recent decades, scientists have debated whether a seven-million-year-old fossil was bipedal—a trait that would make it the ...

A novel iLDS statistic uncovers adaptive gene sweeps in gut bacteria, highlighting evolutionary responses to modern diets and enhancing microbiome studies.

The year’s most notable findings also include insights into dog and sheep domestication and a new species of manta ray in the ...

A study in fruit flies suggests an internal genomic arms race may be driving rapid evolution in proteins that still perform an essential, unchanging job: protecting chromosome ends.

The textbook version of human evolution has long held that Homo erectus was the pioneering species to venture beyond Africa's borders around 1.8 million years ago. However, new analysis of five skulls ...

Environmental change doesn’t affect evolution in a single, predictable way. In large-scale computer simulations, scientists ...

FinVolution Group, a leading credit technology company, recently hosted a closed-door technology forum themed "New AI Paradigms: The Core Logic Driving Future Development," bringing together more than ...

The word “involution”, or neijuan – referring to excessive competition in social and economic life – has become a common slang term in China. Students, workers and even business leaders have been ...

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