The standard evolutionary theory is that humans evolved from a chimp-like ancestor about 3 to 6 million years then migrated out of Africa about 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.

Graduate student Shiuan-Tze Wu led a study of some ingenious organization into the odor-sensing cells of fruit flies. He and his collaborators at the La Jolla campus of UC San Diego found that the odor-detector cells in the insects’ antennae talk to one another in a way that saves brainpower.

Evolutionary scientists discovered an ancient tsunami victim and a dog skeleton at ÇeÅŸme-BaÄŸlararası, a settlement on the coast of Turkey.¹ The researchers also found numerous marine shells mixed within the enveloping sediments, indicating that the waves washed in from the ocean.

A group of scientists—including archaeologists from Newcastle University, UK, and geneticists from the University of the Basque Country, University of Vienna, and Harvard University^1,2—unearthed a millennia-old family genealogy.

On January 15, 2022, an underwater volcano in the Pacific Ocean’s Kingdom of Tonga erupted with the energy of hundreds of Hiroshima-size atom bombs.¹ Both the resulting column of ash and the shock front that rippled away from the eruption could be seen from satellites in space.^1,2