We humans evolved to be social creatures. By gaining the skills to cooperate with others, we were able to stave off predators, eat more consistently, and care for each other’s young, allowing our ...

Charles Darwin worried that the fossil record looked strangely abrupt, with complex animals appearing in a geological instant ...

Nicholas Wade’s book may be the most unassuming brick I’ve ever seen thrown through an intellectual window. It might as well have been wrapped in a Magritte-esque note reading: “This is not a brick.” ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

Does evolution explain why we can't resist a salty chip? Researchers found that differences between the elemental composition of foods and the elemental needs of animals can explain the development of ...

While natural selection is best known for weeding out the weak, it may also be partly responsible for the apparent rise of some disorders, such as autism, autoimmune diseases and reproductive cancers, ...

Warm-blooded animals like mammals and birds spend a ton of energy simply keeping their bodies warm enough to live. Meanwhile, reptiles and other cold-blooded creatures soak up heat by lounging in the ...

Bribiescas teaches biological anthropology at Yale University and is the author of Men: Evolutionary and Life History and How Men Age: What Evolution Reveals about Male Health and Mortality. As an ...