A second experiment tested whether people who are more attuned to the competitive aspects of mating would be more likely to perpetrate online dating abuse. The researchers recruited 162 ...

The present theory also throws light on several specific evolutionary problems, including the interpretation of genic polymorphism, the variability of evolutionary rates inferred from the fossil ...

Some go so far as to say that evolutionary theory itself is in crisis and must be replaced with something new. Not all biologists are convinced. Some argue that repeated calls for reform are ...

Assembly Theory posits that any population of molecules can be viewed as a combination of the minimum number of steps needed to assemble it—the history of how it got there—and the number of ...

In the language of evolutionary theory, we’d say that the signal is a fake one, because the signaller hasn’t paid the costs — in this case, the time and energy to find and catch prey — to ...

Woese presents his theory of cellular evolution, which challenges long-held traditions and beliefs of biologists, in the June 18 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In essence: The theory that meat made us human may be founded on bias, rather than fact. Homo erectus had relatively big brains, like our own species.

University of Auckland evolutionary biologist and his colleagues applied a probabilistic model to three cases of evolution: cephalopods (including octopuses, squids, cuttlefish, and vampire ...

Fish fossils plug a hole in evolutionary theory, and some of the most e-mailed, viewed and commented on stories on the Web.

Gender Evolution Is Gender-Neutral While Darwin has been criticized as sexist, evolutionary theory is egalitarian. Posted November 28, 2022 | Reviewed by Gary Drevitch ...