The evolutionary case for eating meat is etched into human anatomy — but so is the case against it. The science deserves more ...

Most humans favour their right hand, a trait deeply rooted in our evolutionary past. This dominance, linked to language ...

Why do 90% of humans reach with the same hand? The answer stretches back millions of years and involves fossils, language and ...

Hungarian and Belgian researchers are drawing attention to the risks of the future of AI, and evolutionary biology may help ...

Why do humans fear the dark? How can the science of evolutionary biology explain this primitive instinct? Fear of the dark, ...

Tree thinking is a pedagogical approach that emphasises the interpretation and construction of phylogenetic trees to elucidate evolutionary relationships. In the context of evolutionary biology ...

Evolutionary developmental biology, or evo‐devo, investigates how evolution shapes developmental processes to generate the diversity of life. It synthesises comparative embryology, genetics and ...

An international collaboration between four scientists from Mainz, Valencia, Madrid, and Zurich has published new research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shedding light on the ...

The ‘sea unicorn’ is an evolutionary anomaly. What few know is that the narwhal’s iconic ‘horn’ is actually a tooth, shaped ...

2012 was a hallmark year for scientific progress in understanding the evolutionary biology behind altruism, compassion and the importance of community. Neuroscientists have made huge progress in ...

Harvard’s Human Evolutionary Biology concentration may soon be known by a different name. In an email to concentrators, Ashley Johnson, the HEB undergraduate program coordinator, wrote that the ...