We humans evolved to be social creatures. By gaining the skills to cooperate with others, we were able to stave off predators, eat more consistently, and care for each other’s young, allowing our ...

While natural selection is best known for weeding out the weak, it may also be partly responsible for the apparent rise of some disorders, such as autism, autoimmune diseases and reproductive cancers, ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

Bribiescas teaches biological anthropology at Yale University and is the author of Men: Evolutionary and Life History and How Men Age: What Evolution Reveals about Male Health and Mortality. As an ...

Researchers have taken a unique approach to explain the way in which technologies evolve in modern society. Borrowing a technique that biologists might use to study the evolution of plants or animals, ...

Nicholas Wade’s book may be the most unassuming brick I’ve ever seen thrown through an intellectual window. It might as well have been wrapped in a Magritte-esque note reading: “This is not a brick.” ...

One of the biggest questions in evolution is when and how major groups of animals first evolved. The rise of tetrapods (all limbed vertebrates) from their fish relatives marks one of the most ...

Does evolution explain why we can't resist a salty chip? Researchers found that differences between the elemental composition of foods and the elemental needs of animals can explain the development of ...

This blog entry is about one of my many pet peeves. Essentially, there is much literature examining correlates of sex differences in a specific behavior that claim to provide a test of one ...