A new study shows cultural evolution helped humans expand across Earth far faster than genetic change alone could achieve.

My colleague and I have published a new study of cactus flowers which may help explain the conundrum. For more than a century ...

Humans really do rule the world. We took over fast and far, more than any other wild vertebrates. We inhabit nearly every ...

It has long been known as the arbiter of reward in the brain, but recent findings could upend this classic theory of dopamine ...

After research spanning more than 30 years, Jordi Bascompte, Bartolo Luque, Fernando Ballesteros, and Enrique Muro managed to explain the abrupt change in living beings that allowed the appearance of ...

Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger developed quantum theory’s wave equation, which describes quantum systems as waves that ...

Darwin Compared with other mammals, human beings have large brains and access to types of intelligence that other animals cannot even contemplate (not that they would care!). As to the brain, ...

The Science Museum of Minnesota’s Science Live theater combines science and the performing arts to create something truly ...

The appendix has independently evolved at least 32 times across 361 mammalian species. What makes it an evolutionary darling ...

Evolutionary theory has revolutionized the way we understand humans – yet more than a century after Darwin's ideas reshaped biology, the female form of our species remains largely a mystery.

A Harvard physicist who once accepted evolution without question says a surprising encounter with faith forced him to rethink ...

A laser scan finally reveals what surrounds Darwin’s preserved specimens, without opening the fragile 200-year-old jars.