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 ...

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

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

Scientists from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory have uncovered the process of gas accretion in star formation, shedding light on how gas flows towards a forming star's disk.

Two baby pterosaur fossils contain rare evidence of how they died 150 million years ago — and the specimens solve a larger ...

“We observed the rise and fall of different combinations of mutations at different times of infection, supporting the idea ...

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

Human evolution has often been depicted as a process of adaptation, where natural selection and genetic changes drive species ...

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 ...

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