
Human evolution: Its influence on our behaviour and perception …
Oct 23, 2017 · The study of the evolution of the human species can provide insight to understanding the violence, aggression and fear around us today. Humans have evolved as …
ESA - So, how did everything start?
About 5 billion years ago, our Sun was formed from the collapse of a cloud of dust and gas, producing a very average- looking star.
The evolution of biodiversity: ever-increasing or did it hit a ceiling?
May 20, 2020 · Among its results, the researchers have identified five main diversification patterns among vertebrates, providing a framework for understanding the evolution of biodiversity in …
World Heritage Centre - Human Evolution: Adaptations, Dispersals and ...
We find the record increasingly valuable as our inherited storehouse of knowledge about the foundations and diversity of human life, experience, and social behavior as well as modes of …
Understanding Humanity’s Role in Biodiversity Loss: 5 Elements of ...
May 16, 2024 · The extinction of a species implies the complete disappearance of a species from Earth and is generally considered a natural process as a part of life’s history and evolution.
The early universe | CERN
In 1929 the American astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered that the distances to far-away galaxies were proportional to their redshifts. Redshift occurs when a light source moves away …
Yuval Noah Harari on Human Evolution and the AI Revolution - IMF
Oct 1, 2024 · Yuval Noah Harari is a historian, philosopher, and author of several books on human evolution, including Sapiens, and Nexus: A brief history of Information Networks from …
About Evolution and Ecology | Gateways | Open Research Europe
Evolution studies the processes that generated biological diversity on Earth, whereas Ecology investigates the relationships between living organisms and the environment they live in.
ESA - Cosmic eras
Like the geological eras of Earth’s past, the history of the Universe is marked by critical periods in which our cosmos changed dramatically. One of these is the Recombination epoch, when …
UNEP and Biodiversity - UN Environment Programme
The biodiversity seen today is the result of 4.5 billion years of evolution and, increasingly, of human influence as well. It forms the web of life, of which humans are integral and upon which …
Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel: The Nahal Me’arot / …
Located in one of the best preserved fossilised reefs of the Mediterranean region, the site contains cultural deposits representing half a million years of human evolution from the Lower …
Sustaining Life on Earth
Sep 16, 2009 · The biodiversity we see today is the fruit of billions of years of evolution, shaped by natural processes and, increasingly, by the influence of humans. It forms the web of life of …
International Day for Biological Diversity | United Nations
Biological diversity — or biodiversity — is the term given to the variety of life on Earth and the natural patterns it forms. The biodiversity we see today is the fruit of billions of years of...
Evolution: the modern synthesis - UNESCO
Year of publication 1942 Epub Document Source document Record Title Evolution: the modern synthesis Collation
Stars are not eternal: like people, they are born, they change with time, and they die. And also like people, not all stellar lives are the same.
Scientists discover unexpected link between genes involved in …
Oct 14, 2024 · Their study, published in Neuron, provides a surprisingly direct link between human brain evolution and neurodevelopmental disorders. The human brain stands out among …
What is Taxonomy? - Convention on Biological Diversity
Apr 6, 2010 · Taxonomy identifies and enumerates the components of biological diversity providing basic knowledge underpinning management and implementation of the Convention …
ESA - Webb & Hubble confirm Universe’s expansion rate
Mar 11, 2024 · The rate at which the Universe is expanding, known as the Hubble constant, is one of the fundamental parameters for understanding the evolution and ultimate fate of the cosmos.
The birth of the Web - CERN
Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated …
History of child rights | UNICEF
International standards have advanced dramatically over the past century – explore the milestones. In the industrialized countries of the early twentieth century, there were no …