Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

A team of anthropologists recently examined a collection of fossil hominin jawbones, teeth, and vertebrae that belong to ...

The oldest fossilized remains of complex animals appear suddenly in the fossil record, and as if from nowhere, in rocks that ...

There are “costs of life” that mechanical physics cannot calculate. A clear example is the energy required to keep specific ...

An Australian study has shed light on a pest you’ve probably hosted at some point – and it has unearthed a new theory about ...

Corrales, a recent biological sciences Ph.D. graduate from the University of Rhode Island, and his advisor, Associate ...

Abstract: This paper presents a novel approach for automatic prompt optimization (APO) using a large language model (LLM) as an optimizer, named Prompt Evolution Through Examples (PETE). The approach ...

For well over a century, Darwin’s theory of natural selection has served as biology’s grand unifying framework, explaining how species adapt and evolve through the differential replication of randomly ...

The movement of genetic material between organisms that aren’t directly related is a significant driver of evolution, especially among single-celled organisms like bacteria and archaea. A team led by ...

The Indigenous peoples of the Bolivian highlands are survivors. For thousands of years they have lived at altitudes of more than two miles, where oxygen is about 35 percent lower than at sea level.