Evolution

The idea that social groups can impact evolutionary success has been debated since Darwin first suggested it, over 150 years ago. A marmot research project explores this evolutionary question.

Brooke Williams writes about evolution, consciousness, and his own adventures exploring both the inner and outer wilderness.

For many of us who love the outdoors, the first half of March is a least favorite time of year. But if we close our eyes and listen, nature still can brighten the dingy days.

Using a small flightless stick insect as a model, a Utah State University scientist is seeking answers to big questions about evolution.

Humans have evolved to do lots of things. And one thing scientists are now coming to recognize is that we also evolved to fight — with each other.

In a unique global genetic survey of a porcini mushroom, scientists from the Natural History Museum of Utah discovered diverse evolutionary strategies porcini mushrooms

Most of us don’t think about evolution often, if at all, and when we do we often conjure up images of Charles Darwin in the Galapagos Islands. Today, the study of evolution is largely driven by mathematics, complexity theory, and machine learning, but a more complete understanding of evolution can also provide us with an important perspective on our place as a little leaf on the giant tree of life. This week we’re talking about why you oughta care about evolution.

Have you ever found it strange that one of the ways that we let people know we care about them is by gently making fun of them? Teasing is a weird sort of…

Without having a really good reason for doing so, nobody in their right mind would put a dead fish into a ziploc bag, attach it to wires to an electric…

We’re talking about an ancient ancestor of modern anchovies, a fearsome fish that swam the seas about 55 million years ago — and, like so many other…