Humans have long viewed themselves as the pinnacle of evolution, labeling other species as “primitive” or using terms like ...

The paper proposes that the definition of "evolution" shouldn't be exclusively thought of as Darwinian or specific to the evolution of life and should be thought of more broadly, or as the paper ...

In 1758, Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus gave humans a scientific name: Homo sapiens, which means "wise human" in Latin. Although Linnaeus grouped humans with other apes, it was English biologist ...

Microorganisms—bacteria, viruses and other tiny life forms—may drive biological variation in visible life as much, if not ...

Generative artificial intelligence, talkboard and dumb phone are among the new technological words and phrases that have entered the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). The dictionary’s latest update ...