The African continent contains a plethora of creatures great and small, but none stick out quite like giraffes. They tower ...

You’ve heard the slogans: save the whales, protect our pollinators. You may have lamented the decline of polar bears or the ...

The Omo-Turkana basin in Africa is home to a treasure trove of ancient human fossils and tools that span 300,000 years – today it is still yielding new discoveries about our species ...

The memoir weaves reverie, dreams, visions and images into an autobiographical tale of deep love, unbearable loss, fortitude ...

Patti Smith’s Just Kids was voted a best book of the 21st century. Her new memoir covers her whole life, charting deep love, unbearable loss and creative renewal.

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis ...

In tropical climates, lizards are everywhere. It can be a bit wild to see, and they come in all shapes and sizes. They seem a tad superfluous in such large varieties leaving one to wonder, what ...

Climate change is rapidly altering our environment—and posing major challenges for many animal species. Whether they can adapt depends largely on their genetic diversity. An international study ...

Culture, not genetics, may now lead human evolution. Credit: Stadtpflaenzchen / Wikimedia Commons / CC0 1.0 Human evolution is entering a new phase, according to researchers at the University of Maine ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift—driven not by genes, but by culture. "Human evolution seems to be changing ...

The so-called Evolutionary Synthesis, the present paradigm for evolutionary explanations, was established during the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. One of the leading scientists contributing to this was ...