A paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution finds that the relatively high rate of autism-spectrum disorders in humans is ...

The extraordinary evolution of humans is often exemplified by two defining traits: large brains and highly dexterous hands.

Many scientific discoveries are serendipitous—the result of chance. Seeing evolution in action in a cheese cave turned out to ...

Globally, autism affects about 1 in 100 children, according to the World Health Organization. In the U.S., the rate is closer ...

Why do we help others, even when it costs us something? This question has fascinated scientists for decades. A new study from the University of ...

Think you know monkeys? From bananas to big-screen stereotypes, Dr. Paul Garber busts the biggest monkey myths with real ...

F or the past century and a half, the concept of evolution has primarily been wielded by those describing change of a purely ...

The discovery of reasons for fungi's evolution can help in understanding the reasons for local mutations and the ...

The microbiome comprises a multitude of bacteria, viruses and fungi that exist in and on a multicellular organism. The interactions of body cells and the microbiome form a structural and often ...

Scientists have identified tubulin structures in primitive Asgard archea that may have been the precursor of our own cellular ...

Structural reconstruction of thousands of ancient nitrogenases through Earth’s history uncovers architectural constraints that shaped their evolution under global environmental transitions.

Artificial intelligence is now better than humans at identifying many patterns, but evolutionary relationships have always ...