Biologists mapping the human body have long assumed that every major kind of microscopic life inside us already had a place ...

Landmark genetic study: Fresh shoots of hope on the tree of life Conservationists find positive glimmers amid general decline in genetic diversity Date: January 29, 2025 Source: University of Sydney ...

Scientists trace an ancient microbe, Asgard archaea, that gave rise to humans, animals, and plants more than 2 billion years ...

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Researchers have created a way to see your family tree as a movie rather than a still portrait by tracing where your ancestors moved across the globe over time. The statistical method can also be used ...

Research on so-called mirror cells, which defy fundamental properties of living organisms, should be prohibited as too dangerous, biologists said. By Carl Zimmer On Thursday, 38 prominent biologists ...

Life on our planet relies on carbon-based DNA. The panspermia hypothesis suggests that life could have originated in a different part of the universe and then been transported to Earth. In that case, ...