A reduced genome in an island species raises evolutionary questions.

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

When a feline gets threatened, it engages in a suite of behaviors that seem to have the purpose of facilitating its own survival. A cat will growl angrily. It will arch its back. And even the fur on ...

A new systematic review published in Evolutionary Psychological Science suggests that the life stage of a mass murderer plays a significant role in shaping their motivations, stressors, and target ...

The school year is starting up, and this causes me to think of a perennial issue: What is it about evolution that continues to cause controversy in school curricula? Maybe not here in New England, but ...