F or the past century and a half, the concept of evolution has primarily been wielded by those describing change of a purely ...

A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by scientists from Israel and Ghana shows that an ...

A new book argues that the prehistoric need for assistance may have been so intense that it led to the creation of one of the ...

Evolutionary theory proposes wide variation within a trait-such as height, metabolic rate, intelligence, fear. Indeed, if there were no variation there could be no evolution.

Yet this October has seen two papers that claim to describe how a key component of evolutionary theory—selection—fits in with other areas of physics.

According to the researchers, their conclusions about the facial development of embryonic mice also appears to apply to us humans. "In human fetal development, a temporary upper jawbone (incisivum) ...

Evolutionary theory (ET) is a marvelous tool for assisting us in understanding our heritage and our propensities as humans. Those who use ET typically marshall ethnographic, anthropological, and ...

By Bob Grant Should Evolutionary Theory Evolve? Some biologists are calling for a rethink of the rules of evolution. Evolution, by its very nature, is a dynamic process. But just as fluid are ...

One of the problems with our current theory of how language works is that it doesn’t take these longer strings into account. In my own research, I’ve drawn on ideas from biological evolution and ...

Evolutionary theory of economic decisions Date: August 11, 2020 Source: Stanford University Summary: When survival over generations is the end game, researchers say it makes sense to undervalue ...