Hamilton's rule, introduced in the 1960s, says that altruism—helping others at your own expense—can evolve when the benefits ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may be the result of millions of years of evolution. Rapid neuronal evolution in humans is ...

New research into the genetics of Anopheles funestus (An. funestus), one of the most neglected but prolific ...

The evolutionary blueprint for hands was borrowed in part from a much older genetic plan for our nether regions, a new study ...

How did humans become human? Understanding when, where and in what environmental conditions our early ancestors lived is ...

In a Vermont cheese cave, green mold turned white in just eight years. Genetic shifts reveal how microbes adapt quickly to dark, stable conditions.

F or the past century and a half, the concept of evolution has primarily been wielded by those describing change of a purely biological nature. But according to ecologist Mark Vellend, this sort of ...

ASTANA – High school textbooks may frame evolution as a thing of the past, but it is very much alive, said Dr. Arkhat ...

One hundred years ago a young teacher, John T. Scopes, went on trial in Dayton, Tenn., for violating a recently enacted state law that forbade the state’s educators “to teach any theory that denies ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recently published a religion and science addition to its Topics and Questions series addressing four subjects: the general compatibility of science and ...