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How do debilitating mental disorders survive natural selection?

Rand insists altruism is a pernicious lie that is directly contrary to biological reality. Is it?

People were using weapons deeper into our evolutionary past than we previously thought.

Humans aren't the only ones who cry "no fair."

Evolutionary force that has led to the evolution of a diversity of male sexual organ morphologies.

The mystery is simple enough. Its solution, however, has thus far eluded our best scientific minds.

first evidence of a direct link between patterns in early animal diversity and changes in Earth system processes.

A genetic mutation might be the answer to humans' "great expansion."

An alternative propositions that explain how apparent group-level altruism can evolve.

Two traits of brain size and body size are driven by different evolutionary mechanisms.

We don't expect animals to understand human "inventions" like economics. Should we?

Young bonobos console their fellow apes with hugs and sex, say scientists.