Brain freeze — the sharp, seconds-long headache we get from ingesting something cold — is rooted in the way our brain senses ...

Humans don’t have a defined mating season like deer or wolves. Here’s how evolution blended biology, culture and social life into year-round intimacy.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Sun's distance from Earth allows it to be habitable for life. DrPixel/Moment via Getty Images A popular model of evolution ...

If humans vanished overnight, which species would dominate Earth? An Oxford biologist suggests octopuses possess intelligence, adaptability and evolutionary traits that could reshape life’s future.

Computer simulations suggest that evolution itself could be evolving, depending on environmental pressures. This would mean that not only do living things change over generational time but the ...

In honor of Darwin Day Feb. 12, CU Boulder evolutionary biologist Daniel Medeiros explains what we get right and wrong about Darwinism For evolutionary biologists, the big day is imminent. No, not ...

Evolutionary biologists study the changes that occur in plants, animals, and microbes over time and within current populations. When addressing a virus outbreak (like COVID-19), scientists in this ...

The islands are volcanic in origin and were never attached to any continent. Galápagos wildlife arrived by flying, floating or swimming. Birds might have flown there by accident and decided to settle ...

KWONG: Oh. OK, so you found out in your research - by tracing the phylogenetic tree of kissing through primates, you found out that kissing was likely present in the ancestor of all apes who lived 21 ...

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has named Grant King, PhD, a Hanna H. Gray Fellow — investing up to $1.5 million for up to eight years to help King achieve his goal of running his own lab. He is ...