Internal, genetic factors were also crucial. Recent research suggests that the period prior to the Cambrian explosion saw the gradual evolution of a "genetic tool kit" of genes that govern ...

The relative importance of punctuated and gradual patterns of evolution is a subject of debate and research. Charles Darwin understood that evolution was a slow and gradual process. By gradual ...

But the Chinese researchers maintain that the hard-to-classify fossils from East Asia represent the gradual evolution of a new species. Prof Ni has a gracious response to those that disagree with ...

“What we found was there was the slow, steady kind of gradual evolution,” says Steve. Many of the features that we think of when we think of birds – feathers, wings, wishbones, and beaks ...

"Why isn't there a gradual evolution of the angiosperms? Why can't we see intermediate forms between the gymnosperms - things like conifers - and the flowering plants? And why, when they appear ...

AI and Human Evolution As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly widespread and advanced, it prompts new questions about its impact on human life and society. A recent paper in The ...