This View of Life
Magazine

An Epidemic of Absence takes on the worms you're missing.

Scientists have long suspected that big brains come with an evolutionary price.

A new gene they say helps explain how humans evolved from chimpanzees.

Moreover, as lying has evolved, so has the ability to detect lies.

Is Inequality Natural?

An 800,000-year-old tooth that paleontologists originally thought belonged to an elephant is actually from a miniature-sized mammoth.

What if it turned out, though, that expectant fathers molded babies, too, and not just by way of genes?

How elite competition can lead to unequal outcomes.

Empirically demonstrating the pace of cultural evolution.

As a new evolutionary process, however, our origin was almost as momentous as the origin of life.

How chimpanzees and bonobos exchange favors.

Studies of dolphins, primates and humans show the reason we choose the companions we do is more complex, and perhaps less honorable, than we might think.