Genetic sharing among evolutionary neighbors all happens through hybrids: the offspring produced when individuals from two ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

While we share bones, joints, and internal plumbing with the rest of the animal kingdom, one tiny facial feature is uniquely ...

The discovery and the use of fire changed the nature of the digestion of food, creating additional calories. Serotonin, a ...

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 ...

A study reveals how seabream change sex and why some males invest more sperm, rewriting the hidden biology of these fish.

This is where the paradox emerges: the very cognitive abilities that allow humans to innovate, plan, and manipulate the ...

Human biology evolved for a world of movement, nature, and short bursts of stress—not the constant pressure of modern life.

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.

This study presents a large, systematically curated catalog of non-canonical open reading frames (ncORFs) in human and mouse by reanalyzing nearly 400 Ribo-seq datasets using a standardized pipeline; ...

Co-evolutionary genetics of ecological communities offers a new understanding of adaptation and gene function that cannot be obtained from genomic data without an ecological context. Some ...

The proposal that evolution could be used as a metaphor for problem solving came with the invention of the computer 1. In the 1970s and 1980s the principal idea was developed into different ...