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

Humans have long viewed themselves as the pinnacle of evolution, labeling other species as “primitive” or using terms like ...

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

Self-correction and cultural reflexivity are crucial to psychology’s scientific role.

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 ...

On a scale of 0 to 100%, the importance of nutrition for a professional football team to have real chances of winning a title ...

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

Researchers discovered the earliest instance in which fish took advantage of their gill bones to make a new innovation in the ...

Researchers developed a fully automated cooperation task showing that rats engage in true reciprocity, not just mutual ...

“Large brains and dexterous hands are considered pivotal in human evolution, together making possible technology, culture and colonisation of diverse environments,” the research authors said. Humans ...

In a study published last week in the journal Science, researchers suggest the evolution of thumbnails might have helped some ...

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