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Evolution
The visual systems of a group of mollusks reveal how future evolution depends on the past.
In the new book Purpose, a Yale psychiatrist argues Darwinian forces are divinely guided.
Over 72 million Americans are obese—a condition associated with a plethora of negative health outcomes including diabetes, cancer, and heart problems. But Americans’ eating habits aren’t obesity’s only cause, and we’ve suspected as much for a long time now. In 1932, the California Medical Association noted that “the inborn disposition to obesity may be very […]
Our big-brained noggins require us to be born early so we can squeeze through a tight birth canal.
Suicide-bombing ants. Bone-breaking frogs. Spit-flinging arachnids. Back-birthing toads. And bone-dissolving worms. What do all of the above have in common? Specialized adaptations. They’ve become so accustomed to their distinct habitats that they’d be more likely to perish, compared to their more generalist relatives, if moved to a slightly different locale. Each of them, as a […]
The growing role of grandparents in raising children is right in line with human biology.
What a waste are two thumbs on the space bar. There they sit, nearly flaccid, punctuating the end of each word, awaiting the call to crack stone or to use sharp flakes to incise wood. It is easy to think of other traits as making us human. We talk, use metaphors, empathize, follow fashions, laugh, play […]
Getting control of the molecular mechanisms that drive rapid mutations.
One biologist’s love for science got kickstarted by snakes.
