Why did humans evolve the eyes we have today? While scientists can't go back in time to study the environmental pressures that shaped the evolution of the diverse vision systems that exist in nature, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. One of the most useful ways to look at new artificial intelligence technologies is to evaluate how they mimic biological designs.

Deep-sea fish, a group of inhabitants of the most light-deprived and harsh environments on our planet, have been discovered to possess a vision similar to humans. This groundbreaking finding not only ...

Biologists have often wondered what would happen if they could rewind the tape of life’s history and let evolution play out all over again. Would lineages of organisms evolve in radically different ...

Jonathan Goldenberg receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 101126636. Picture a primordial Earth ...

The evolution of vision (the eye) is considered one of the most significant events in the history of life on Earth. 540 million years ago, during the Cambrian period, there was a sudden burst of ...

In his new book, "The Vision Revolution," neurobiologist Mark Changizi explains why the evolution of vision has afforded humans four very real superpowers: telepathy, X-ray vision, seeing the future ...

Discover interesting facts about how evolution works, the different patterns that can emerge from evolution, how quickly organisms can evolve, and whether evolution is a random or ordered process When ...

Picture a primordial Earth: a world of muted browns, grays and greens. Fast forward to today, and Earth teems with a ...