This View of Life
Magazine

Harvard scientists have solved the long-standing mystery of how some insects form the germ cells.

The emerging science of biomimicry offers a way forward.

A new study offers another explanation for our unusual aptitude for collaboration.

Warfare has transformed us from living in villages to living in huge states, building cities and civilizations, and ultimately making our lives more peaceful.

Chimpanzees can learn to use tools more efficiently by watching how others use them.

Thanks to cultural evolution, male Savannah sparrows are changing their tune, partly to attract “the ladies.”

New genetic evidence shows our ancestors interbred with now-extinct species.

Was Dawkins right? Is Wilson a once-great researcher who has taken a wrong turn?

Humans are aware of their own and other's minds in ways unlike any other animal. But why did consciousness evolve?

Tool use and exploration may be just side effects of social skills.

Sex differences and evolutionary psychology.

A broad view of cultural evolution reveals science to be very unusual, very recent, and very fragile.