Shane Campbell-Staton is professor of evolutionary biology at Princeton University. He's also the host of the PBS show, Human ...

Humans aren’t the only creatures engaging in same-sex sexual activities. To date, scientists have documented around 1,500 ...

Humans are the only primates that run nearly naked under the sun. Here’s how this biological tradeoff reshaped how our ...

Birds are the most diverse land vertebrate on the planet, and now scientists have constructed a complete evolutionary tree of the 11,000 or so known species. This data came from hundreds of studies ...

Biologists are closing in on a puzzle that seems to turn classic evolutionary logic inside out, yet may be so common that it ...

Beneath the surface of forests, grasslands and farms, vast fungal webs form underground trading systems to exchange nutrients ...

Mudskippers break the rules of fish biology by breathing through their skin, walking on their fins and thriving on land where ...

A reduced genome in an island species raises evolutionary questions.

AMES, Iowa — A scientist frequently found on annual lists of "most influential," "living genius," and "the world's top thinkers" will speak at Iowa State University. Richard Dawkins, evolutionary ...

HOUSTON, Oct. 6, 2004 -- Social cooperation is one of the most difficult adaptations for evolutionary biologists to explain because competition for resources inside the collective should lead to ...