On an expedition in the Awash Valley in Ethiopia, two anthropologists uncovered the bones of a 3.2 million-year-old human ...

"One Hand Clapping" draws from neuroscience, evolution, philosophy and a rich tapestry of cultural references to examine how ...

Summary: Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum explore why consciousness evolved and why different species developed it in distinct ways. By comparing humans with birds, they show that complex ...

Although we humans have changed our environment in many ways during the past few thousand years, we are still changed by ...

Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of NPR's Short Wave podcast talk about the evolutionary history of kissing, how moss spores fare in space, and new clues about the collision that created the moon.

HEREDITY IN EDITING: Charles Darwin used the famous phrase “descent with modification” to describe evolution, but he could have applied it to the job of editing manuscripts. Both processes take an ...

A cell is fundamentally a container—a vessel that encapsulates life at the most basic level. Many biologists believe ...

The study found that unlike other vertebrates where competition generally suppresses speciation after ecological niches are ...

Scientists have developed a theoretical model that uncovers the dual role of polyploidy -- organisms carrying extra genome copies -- in evolution. Their findings reveal that polyploidy can stabilize ...

The vibe in the biology classroom was tentative. The students knew what was coming. The professor knew what was coming. What was unknown was how it was going to turn out. But this was not a science ...

A new book by biblical scholar Dr. Dru Johnson, visiting associate professor of religion at Hope College, moves beyond the either-or debate in exploring what the Bible and evolutionary science say ...

A cat's tongue feels rough for a very specific reason. We explore the science of papillae and the incredible evolutionary ...