Evolution

Our knowledge of our solar system has passed the point of no return. Increasingly, it seems possible that scientists will soon discover how life is...

Recent advances that allow scientists to quickly and accurately sequence a genome have revolutionized our view of the structure and function of gen...

Impossible Monsters is the captivating story of the discovery of the dinosaurs and how it upended our understanding of the origins of the world.An ...

After his famous visit to the Galapagos Islands, Darwin speculated that one might fancy that, from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago...

A fascinating analysis of the evolution of religion from the internationally renowned evolutionary psychologistWhen did humans develop spiritual th...

Charles Darwin's most famous book On the Origin of Species is without question, one of the most important books ever written. While even the grande...

Biogeography is the study of geographic variation in all characteristics of life - ranging from genetic, morphological and behavioural variation am...

Rereading the Fossil Record presents the first-ever historical account of the origin, rise, and importance of paleobiology, from the mid-nineteenth...

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...