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Discovery of a surprise multitasking gene helps explain how new functions...

Katherine L. Petrie, University of California San Diego and Justin Meyer, University of California San Diego Evolutionary biologists like us try to figure out how...

Fossil jawbone from Israel is the oldest modern human found outside...

Rolf Quam, Binghamton University, State University of New York New fossil finds over the past few years have been forcing anthropologists to reexamine our evolutionary...

Super-black feathers can absorb virtually every photon of light that hits...

Dakota McCoy, Harvard University What do birds and aerospace engineers have in common? Both have invented incredibly dark, “super-black” surfaces that absorb almost every last...

It’s mostly mothers who pass on mitochondria – and a new...

Arunas L. Radzvilavicius, University of Pennsylvania Evolutionary interests of males and females do not always coincide. This is known as sexual conflict: male innovations that...

30 years after Edwards v. Aguillard: Why creationism lingers in public...

John E. Taylor, West Virginia University This month marks the 30th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Edwards v. Aguillard, a groundbreaking case...

Brain-imaging modern people making Stone Age tools hints at evolution of...

Shelby Putt, Indiana University How did humans get to be so smart, and when did this happen? To untangle this question, we need...

Using the placenta to understand how complex organs evolve

Considering how different they look from the outside, it might be surprising that all vertebrates – animals with a backbone – share...

Seeking truth among ‘alternative facts’

Peter Neal Peregrine, Lawrence University Part of what I do as an archaeologist is judge between competing claims to truth. Indeed, you could say this...

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