In a moment of great importance for Japanese animation, the esteemed filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki has once again left an indelible mark on the global stage. He secured a Golden Globe for his latest masterpiece, The Boy and the Heron. This recognition commends Miyazaki’s exceptional storytelling and underscores the profound impact of Japanese animation, or anime, ...
Earth’s surface is the living skin of our planet — it connects the physical, chemical, and biological systems and their diversity. Over geological time, this surface evolves. Rivers fragment the landscape into an environmentally diverse range of habitats. These rivers also transfer sediments from the mountains to the continental plains and ultimately the oceans. The ...
In June, evolution researchers, led by palaeoanthropologist Lee Berger, published sensational claims about an extinct human species called Homo naledi online and in the Netflix documentary Unknown: Cave of Bones. They argued the small-brained H. naledi buried their dead in Rising Star Cave in South Africa more than 240,000 years ago, and may also have ...
The fossilized remains of a prehistoric toothed bird that lived 67 million years ago are turning the bird tree of life on its head. The bird — named Janavis finalidens — shares crucial features with its modern cousins, such as chickens and ducks, which is forcing a rethink about bird evolution. A stone-encased fossil was plucked from ...
Compared to other primates, humans have exceptional pitch control and an ability alien to other species: speaking. But why are humans the only animals that possess a voice? And why do humans have more voice control than nonhuman primates? Scientists believe evolutionary changes in the human voice box aided our ability to have long and ...
The theory of evolution is a shortened form of the term “theory of evolution by natural selection,” which was proposed by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace in the 19th century. What is the theory of evolution? In the theory of evolution or natural selection, organisms produce more offspring than can survive in their environment. ...
Researchers at Yale have answered a long-debated question about which competing model of evolution works best. They have come up with the answer by using sophisticated modeling of genomic data from diverse species indicating that Charles Darwin was wrong. Their study, which was published in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution, suggests that the “house of cards” model, which holds that mutations with large ...
A plant used in traditional Chinese medicine has evolved to become less visible to humans, new research shows. Scientists found that Fritillaria delavayi plants, which live on rocky slopes of China’s Hengduan mountains, match their backgrounds most closely in areas where they are heavily harvested. This suggests humans are “driving” the evolution of this species into new color ...
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