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

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 ...

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.

Two bacteriologists showed that mutations arise spontaneously in bacterial cultures, thereby disproving Jean-Baptiste Lamarck ...

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 ...

Kissing is more than just “mouth-to-mouth” touching, and the study doesn’t really shed much light on why humans kiss the way they do, said Adriano Reis e Lameira, an evolutionary psychologist and ...

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 ...