This View of Life
Magazine

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.

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.