A million years ago, when everything we encountered was shaped solely by forces of nature, something that began as a spark of ...

Human diets have evolved through a complex interplay of biological, environmental, and cultural factors from the Pleistocene era to the present day. This ...

The scale invariance in branch diameter dictates how much smaller a limb should be as it branches and how much investment a ...

The internet erupted in controversy over Felisa Wolfe-Simon and colleagues’ claim of a microbe thriving on arsenic. Nearly 15 ...

Short snouts and a flat profile -- within a span of 100 years, humans have significantly changed the shape of the skulls of German domestic pigs. This is likely down to new breeding practices ...

Evolution is traditionally associated with a process of increasing complexity and gaining new genes. However, the explosion ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the ...

Game theory, human evolution and criminology are just some of the scientific ... says players should keep in mind that "in evolutionary literature, altruism doesn't really exist". “Remember, it’s not ...

Establish long-term goals to promote genuine cultural evolution, avoiding short-term fixes like superficial diversity hires. Merit should not be compromised; Implement robust metrics to measure ...

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once preached, “Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgment.