When most people think about natural selection, they imagine individuals competing with one another: The fastest animal ...

New research challenges the one-level view of evolution, showing natural selection works on individuals and groups together.

The theory of evolution by natural selection was first formulated in Darwin’s book “On the Origin of Species” in 1859. It ...

Survival of the fittest. Nature red in tooth and claw. The common view of natural selection is based solely on the individual: A trait allows an organism to out-compete its rivals and is thus passed ...

The common view of natural selection is based solely on the individual: A trait allows an organism to out-compete its rivals and is thus passed down to its offspring. To suggest otherwise can provoke ...

A new study explains why humans have chins while other primates do not. Researchers found that the chin likely formed as a ...

Group Selection Was Debated For Decades. A New Review Says The Empirical Case Is Far Stronger Than Critics Claimed. In A Nutshell A new review of nearly 3,000 scientific papers found 280 studies ...

In his new book, Roland Ennos offers eye-opening ideas that the importance of physical power and engineering ...

Peter Ungar, a distinguished professor of anthropology at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, has been named Doctor et Professor Honoris Causa by Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest.

Dolphins developed streamlined bodies and other adaptations when they transitioned from land to water 50 million years ago. Credit: Pexels.com.

Our biggest obstacle might not be technological,” author Scott E. Solomon said of future life on Mars. “It might be us.” ...

The ability to communicate symbolically is one of the hallmarks of our species, yet scientists still don’t know exactly when ...