Evolution is always happening — so why can't we see it? A biologist explains the timescale problem, election pressure, and ...

In a similar vein, Vice President Vance has claimed that Americans who can trace their ancestry to those who fought in the ...

But new evidence has started to challenge the notion that human childbirth is uniquely dangerous. A new paper published today ...

For most of modern history, this architectural quirk was ignored. But over the last decade, it has become the visual anchor for one of the most sprawling, rapidly growing, and visually compelling ...

A new book shows how a phrase made its way from the crime pages to our political arguments—and picked up a passel of meanings ...

In 1866, the topic became so controversial that the Société de Linguistique de Paris banned discussions about language origins altogether.

In the 1960s, Kimura’s neutral theory revolutionized molecular biology by arguing most DNA changes are random, not adaptive. A new study finds beneficial mutations are far more common than Kimura’s ...

Just under 300,000 years from the moment Homo sapiens appeared in Africa, the species had encircled Earth, mastering desolate deserts and frozen wastelands and all the temperate climes in between.

A rewrite of quantum mechanics that includes the force of gravity could finally achieve one of physicists’ biggest goals and reveal the ultimate fuzziness of time ...

An international team of researchers led by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, working with 15 collaborators around the world, has conducted the most ...

Humans spread across the world with a speed no other wild vertebrate has matched. We live in deserts, rainforests, high mountains, and deep cold. Most animals can’t even handle a fraction of that ...

In a world conditioned by evolutionary advantage, Christians are called to welcome those who seem naturally selected for failure. A hundred years ago in Dayton, Tennessee, high school teacher John ...