This View of Life
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What does theology--as distinct from the scholarly study of religion--contribute to our understanding of religion from an evolutionary perspective?

If true, the study, casts doubt on the idea that modern humans and Neanderthals co-existed.

When a Western scrub jay dies, researchers report, other jays may hold a kind of funeral.

Key mental developments within the human lineage may have been linked with a highly variable environment.

This universality already suggests that there could be a good evolutionary reason for pruney fingers.

Are all these brain studies really telling us much as we think they are?

Those who believe that a supernatural being created the universe have never posed an intellectual challenge to evolutionary theory.

With a clearer picture of where we came from, we may find a better understanding of who we are and where we are going.

Recreation may look like it serves no obvious purpose, but when dogs and other animals are having fun they are learning some valuable lessons.

Even babies as young as a year-and-a-half can guess what other people are thinking, new research suggests.

A science teacher asks if scientists and biblical literalists can get along.

The primates have an altruistic 'tally chart' that keeps track of social rewards and gifts.