While Darwin's work on evolutionary biology was revolutionary and laid the foundation of modern scientific thinking on the subject, his views on social injustice are equally important, and carry ...

The natural and the social world shaped the evolution of each. Knowing whom to invite to dinner is as important as knowing ...

Compared with human-specific transcriptional factors, human-specific lncRNAs identified upon human lncRNAs’ orthologs in mammals have greatly evolved DNA-binding sites in archaic and modern humans in ...

The story of a wildflower that adapted to a severe drought in California raises hopes that evolution will come to the rescue ...

Your body is a living museum of evolution, carrying within it the remarkable story of our species' 6-million-year journey from tree-dwelling primates to ...

Partula snails all but vanished from Polynesia after the arrival of a carnivorous foreign snail. But a global alliance of ...

How a collection of London pigeons and Galápagos mockingbirds provided the receipts for Darwin’s biggest ideas.

As a result, the evolutionary pressures that once favored the appendix have largely disappeared. Meanwhile, the medical risks of keeping the appendix – most notably appendicitis – remain. Modern ...

The modern educational experience is a clear example of how mismatched today's world is from ancestral conditions.

One of the most popular explanations for why menopause evolved in some species is called the grandmother hypothesis. Essentially, older females stop having offspring of their own, and redirect energy ...