Positive selection may have boosted human evolution far more markedly than is realised in the last 5,000 years.
A team led by University of Wisconsin-Madison anthropologist John Hawks estimates that positive selection just in the past 5,000 years alone – dating back to the Stone Age – has occurred at a rate roughly 100 times [...]

Strawberries, because they have seeds on their skin, do not qualify as an actual fruit biologically. Nor do a whole range of other… foodstuffs:
Strawberries, you will be glad to know, are a “false fruit”. Which seems reasonable enough. But at this point a small doubt started to grow in my mind… what, actually, [...]

In the not too distant future artificial intelligence (AI) will enhance biological intelligence (in short, our brains) rather than, as per various science fiction scenarios, attempting to subdue or destroy humanity.
In a few decades, the average human brain will host billions of blood-cell-sized computers that will effectively multiply our biological intelligence a billion fold. This [...]

Is it really possible to recreate a dinosaur from a… chicken embryo?
If you consider a chicken to be a “modern dinosaur”, and I suppose that’s not a completely absurd proposition, there are some (very remote) similarities between chickens and some dinosaurs, then it just be a viable (though not necessarily ethical) concern.
Horner was an [...]

It seems people with the same brain chemical systems play best together in the dating and relationship arena, according to research by biological anthropologist Helen Fisher.
There was a great deal of data that people vary in terms of their expression of dopamine and norepinephrine, serotonin, estrogen and oxytocin and testosterone. I culled from the academic [...]