Hamilton's rule, introduced in the 1960s, says that altruism—helping others at your own expense—can evolve when the benefits ...

The bones of a 160-million-year-old dinosaur are helping scientists solve one of evolution’s biggest mysteries: how birds ...

Zipf’s law of abbreviation explains how commonly spoken words tend to be shorter. The idea is so intuitive, birds appear to ...

"We need to continue examining different causes of population declines and apply those findings to conservation initiatives." ...

Responses to a column by Thomas L. Friedman about cooperation between the U.S. and China on artificial intelligence. Also: A ...

ASTANA – High school textbooks may frame evolution as a thing of the past, but it is very much alive, said Dr. Arkhat ...

Edgar Heap of Birds, ’79 MFA alumnus of Tyler, closed the ceremony by sharing his feelings of isolation from the Native ...

Typically considered exceedingly rare in birds, a new study in Australia found sex reversal rates up to 6 percent for some ...

Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have determined the genetic lineage of a now extinct plant population from ...

An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like. Now it turns out they, not Neanderthals, might be our ...