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

Metal Barrels Dumped Off the Coast of Los Angeles Are Encircled by Mysterious White Halos—and Scientists Think They Finally ...

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

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

The Atlas blue butterfly has 229 chromosome pairs, the most of any animal, and its DNA may reveal insights into evolution and ...

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

Viking consisted of two twin orbiters and landers, with experimental chambers in the landers to conduct three biology ...

A planetary perspective on the relationship between life and energy, and the emergence of a life form whose influence extends ...

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

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

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

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