People often consider evolution to be a process that occurs in nature in the background of human society. But evolution is ...

Human testicles are much smaller, in proportion, to some of our primate cousins. Evolution can tell us why. But the size of ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts—from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and ...

A group of scientists studying pregnancy across six different mammals—from humans to marsupials—uncovered how certain cells at the mother-baby boundary have been working together for over 100 million ...

Take heart in this impression. A century ago, when adolescent psychology first emerged as a field of study, that was exactly ...

Human, need to survive in the harsh environment with swarms of enemies and rebuild the human civilization after the world was changed by the apocalypse.

Eastern Baltic cod grow to much smaller sizes than they did just 30 years ago, because overfishing altered their genes, ...

Has anyone besides Murray Rothbard made a compelling case for state-free anarchy? In this week‘s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David ...

Evolutionary genetics is the study of how genetic variation leads to evolutionary change. It includes topics such as the evolution of genome structure, the genetic basis of speciation and ...

A deeper understanding of how DNA changes over generations helps scientists learn why people differ and how diseases develop.