A reduced genome in an island species raises evolutionary questions.

Philosopher of science David Buller has a bone to pick with evolutionary psychology, the idea that some important human behaviors are best explained as evolutionary adaptations to the struggles we ...

If you're old enough to read this, you know that life is not always peaches and cream. While life can be both beautiful and even awe-inducing at times, human life often comes with a dark side as well.

Humans split away from chimpanzees, our closest animal relatives, about seven million years ago, and formed our own branch on the evolutionary tree. In the relatively brief— from an evolutionary ...

Male aggression and sexual coercion of females in primates / Martin N. Muller, Sonya M. Kahlenberg, and Richard W. Wrangham -- Evolution of sexual coercion with respect to sexual selection and sexual ...

Foreword / J. Francis Thackeray -- 1. African genesis : an evolving paradigm / Sally C. Reynolds ; 2. Academic genealogy / Peter S. Ungar and Phillip V. Tobias -- pt. 1. In search of origins : ...

The school year is starting up, and this causes me to think of a perennial issue: What is it about evolution that continues to cause controversy in school curricula? Maybe not here in New England, but ...