evolution

06/03/2016 - 15:24

The journey to love as we know it today began with sex, which was one of the first things life on Earth figured out how to do. Sex began as... →

20/12/2015 - 15:46

Scientists use the DNA and physical traits of different living (and extinct) things to figure out where they intersect, spinning the web... →

02/12/2015 - 15:54

When does old age begin? The poet Dante believed old age started at 45. A survey of the British public concluded that it starts at 59 – the... →

22/08/2015 - 13:27

These researchers from Switzerland carefully crafted a "mother robot" that could assemble pre-fab parts into blocks that could perform some... →

20/02/2015 - 14:35

“There's lots of evidence that dogs are more skilled than primates at thinking about a person's communicative intentions,” says Laurie R.... →

21/01/2015 - 19:21

On one hand, aren't there obvious differences between groups of people? One analogy is color. All colors are on the same continuum, as are... →

17/09/2014 - 12:15

It was only in 2004 that two psychologists – Russell Hill and Robert Barton at the University of Durham – began to wonder whether humans... →

17/12/2013 - 19:22

Even erring on the side of vision in their estimates, the researchers found that echolocation was twice as effective as vision in detecting... →

03/11/2013 - 18:35

But only after the sexual revolution of the 1970s did the phrase “competition among females” even begin to crop up with any regularity in... →

09/10/2012 - 13:04

We can expect other dramatic changes too. - Everyone will have the same shape of NOSE because climate is having less influence on broad or... →

03/09/2012 - 12:36

Anna Goodman of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and colleagues, have now found some evidence in Swedish family records... →

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