Human evolution is often told as a tidy story of adaptation, yet some of our most familiar body parts still defy ...

It's easy to guess why it doesn't take long to learn to avoid certain behaviors and embrace others. But how do we know what drives these predilections? A new study offers insight into the evolutionary ...

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There's no denying it and now science may support it: men love big butts. According to a study highlighted in Medical Daily, a team of researchers at Turkey's Bilkent University found further evidence ...

A new Yale study sheds light on the process by which humans detect flavor, and indicates that the design of the upper human airway might have developed as an evolutionary safeguard against consumption ...

“Evolution makes its appeal to reason, but its acceptance does not mean the abasement, let alone the denial, of emotion, faith, and religion.” When there is talk of evolution among laymen it is ...

About 10 percent of all couples hoping for a baby have fertility problems. Some environmentalists say pollution is to blame, while some psychiatrists point to our stressful lifestyles. But an ...

On the face of it, there’s no reason not to dissect religion with the same tools used to pick apart animal behavior. Why can’t we ask how religion evolved? What’s wrong with trying to figure out ...

The Brexit vote caught most elite observers by surprise and has spurred a flurry of talk of further possible defections from the EU. But one person who was not so surprised was Peter Turchin, an ...

The term "cheating" is used in the evolutionary and ecological literature to describe a wide range of exploitative or deceitful traits. Although many find this a useful short hand, others have ...