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Evolutionary Biology
If dogs are out in coats and boots, how are the squirrels feeling?
He was also a eugenicist — but at least he could draw pretty pictures.
Evolution repeatedly hit upon this solution simply because it works.
If aliens are driven mostly by biological imperatives, humanity could be in big trouble if we ever meet technologically advanced beings.
A concept known as "wave-particle duality" famously applies to light. But it also applies to all matter — including you.
Life is the only physical system that actively uses information.
Becoming less physically active as you get older is not inevitable.
The spikes in their mouths would have helped them catch squid or fish.
Ancient humans may have evolved to slumber efficiently — and in a crowd.
Bathybius haeckelii was briefly thought to be the link between inorganic matter and organic life.
Antibodies can start forming in intestines over 10 years before symptoms arise.
One possible vision of the distant future.
Inspired by the shape of a New Caledonian crow’s beak, researchers created a new 3D-printed prototype of tweezers.
All American and European eels originate in the same place.
Something doesn't add up.
An increase in genetic regulatory elements explains how modern humans evolved bigger brains than other hominins.
We got lucky with our evolutionary history.
Tracing the origin and development of jaws — and other anatomical features that humans share — sheds some light on how we came to be.
Just as human beings diversified so that people in Asia look different from people in Europe, so too did their microbiomes.
Sex can be a death trap even for modern toad and frog species.
One tiny change might have made a huge difference.
At a fundamental level, only a few particles and forces govern all of reality. How do their combinations create human consciousness?
Despite the fact that both species shared a similarly large neocortex, scientists still have many questions about how closely the function of their brains resembled our own.
Are there any advantages to looking so cumbersome?
