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

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 ...

How do cells know what they should become as the body develops? Biological development depends crucially on spatial patterns: ...

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

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

A new study suggests culture is reshaping human evolution faster than DNA, redefining how our species adapts, survives, and ...

New analysis of a 140,000-year-old skull morphologically resembling modern humans and Neanderthals may be the earliest ...

In a Genomic Press Interview published today in Brain Medicine, Dr. Alex Tsompanidis highlights an exciting new idea that ...