Evolution

The scientific understanding of arthropod phylogeny and evolution has changed significantly in recent decades. One of the most momentous alteration...

When Charles Darwin first proposed Sexual Selection Theory, he suggested two mechanisms: competition among males and choice by females. Although th...

The scientific study of human mating has mushroomed over the past three decades, and this growth in turn has generated a proliferation of evolving ...

A major synthesis of homology, written by a top researcher in the fieldHomology—a similar trait shared by different species and derived from common...

Using place, politics, and rhetoric as analytical tools, historical geographer David N. Livingstone investigates how religious communities sharing ...

How are sights and sounds and smells converted into electrical signals in a form that can be interpreted by the nervous system? Although this proce...

The discoveries of the last decade have brought about a completely revised understanding of human evolution due to the recent advances in genetics,...

Population genetics is an inherently quantitative discipline, yet often focuses upon abstract concepts which can be difficult to conceptualize and ...

Modern thought is characterized by a dichotomy of meaningful culture and unmeaning nature. Signs in the Dust uses medieval semiotics to develop a n...

From the family to the workplace to the marketplace, every facet of our lives is shaped by cooperative interactions. Yet everywhere we look, we are...

Positive psychologists focus on ways that we can advance the lives of individuals and communities by studying the factors that increase positive ou...