Evolution

How Cold War America came to attribute human evolutionary success to our species' unique capacity for murderAfter World War II, the question of how...

Hummingbirds, and the balletic ways in which they feed on flowers, are familiar to most people. But they belong to just one of at least 74 bird fam...

A giant of the discipline of biogeography and co-discoverer of natural selection, Alfred Russel Wallace was the most famous naturalist in the world...

In one sense, human heads function much like those of other mammals. We use them to chew, smell, swallow, think, hear, and so on. But, in other res...

Cortical Evolution in Primates provides a stand-alone resource for neuroscience graduate students and established neuroscientists who have an inter...

DNA ancestry companies generate revenues in the region of $1bn a year, and the company 23andMe is said to have sold 10 million DNA ancestry kits to...

The fields of molecular evolution, genome evolution, and evolutionary genetics are now well-established. Remarkably, however, although all evolutio...

Full of wonder and forensic intelligence Isabella Tree, author of Wilding A moving account of Madagascar told by a researche...

Evolutionary change is usually incremental and continuous, but some increases in organizational complexity have been radical and divisive. Evolutio...

Plants first colonized the land over 430 million years ago, having evolved from some of the most primitive forms of life. Since then, plants have p...

An enchanting biography of the most resonant and most necessary chemical element on Earth. Carbon. It is the building block of every ce...

A Primer of Population Genetics and Genomics has been completely revised and updated to provide a concise but comprehensive introduction to the bas...

A Primer of Population Genetics and Genomics has been completely revised and updated to provide a concise but comprehensive introduction to the bas...

This is the fascinating theory from author and futurist Byron Reese, who calls this human superorganism Agora. In We Are Agora, Reese starts by as...

Evolutionary quantitative genetics (EQG) provides a formal theoretical foundation for quantitatively linking natural selection and genetic variatio...