Over 100 attendees filled NYU’s annual Darwin Lecture on Monday, where Princeton professor Lindy McBride explored how humans ...

Research suggests that crying is not a sign of weakness, but one of the most sophisticated social technologies in the natural ...

Neanderthal skull discovered in 1908 in France. (Luna04/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0) In 1857, the German anatomist Hermann ...

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During the fall semester of 2025, I taught a graduate seminar entitled “Darwinian Thought and Society.” While teaching should ...

Not the strongest survives, but the one that best adapts to an environment that changes without asking permission.” Charles ...

Francis Collins explains why many of history’s greatest scientists believed faith and science could work together.

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An evolutionary survey across mammals found the appendix arose independently many times, clarifying why this small intestinal pouch persists while remaining modest in modern human health. The report ...

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Blushing is one behavior you may have wanted to eliminate completely, but there is a strong, adaptive reason why evolution chose to retain it.