In the spring, ants are once again hard at work. Beyond their everyday presence, ants are also key model organisms in cutting ...

While many studies have looked at possible evolutionary links between men's strength and sexual behavior, a Washington State University study included data on women with a surprising result. Women, as ...

A small fossil snake may hold outsized clues about snake evolution, behavior, and an ancient ecosystem that looked nothing ...

Trying to understand human behavior (a basic feature of our species, shaped by natural selection) without understanding evolutionary principles would be like trying to understand the details of a car ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Human behavior may have influenced the evolution of new strains of COVID-19, new AI models suggest. Vaccination and ...

An eye-opening genetic study recently published in Science Advances explores the genetic connection between human bisexual behavior and a previously unknown reproductive advantage. Ph.D. student ...

The study of animal behaviour in ecological and evolutionary contexts examines how behavioural traits develop, persist and interact with environmental challenges. Research in this field investigates ...

Introduction : Why teeth? -- I. Development. Microscopes, cells, and biological rhythms -- The big picture : birth, death, and everything in between -- Things that can go wrong : stress, pathology, ...

The evolutionary perspective on the human experience is rich and full of guiding light if you take a minute to look for it. The basic idea of evolutionary psychology is that human behavior—and all ...

Scientists have long wondered whether evolution would follow the same path if history had a chance for a “do-over.” New research suggests that it does, when it comes to the brain and its regulation of ...

John Maynard Smith is best known for his use of mathematical analyses in biology. Trained as an engineer and then as a biologist, Smith applied game theory to animal behavior and found that although ...