To maintain a Darwinian perspective on culture we must view humans as passive imitators and transmitters, ignoring cthe ...

If your parents' bone repair genes never turn on, you still inherit them, and you heal. But if they don't teach you to ski, ...

New research suggests that natural selection, famous for rewarding advantageous differences in organisms, can also preserve similarities. The researchers worked with a plant called wild radish and its ...

When Charles Darwin articulated his theory of evolution by natural selection in On the Origin of Species in 1859, he focused on adaptations — the changes that enable organisms to survive in new or ...

Most of us know that as living things evolve, they take on traits that help them thrive in their home environments. But how ...