Scientists say some of the traits that define modern humans may have evolved only after long-standing biological and cultural ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

From natural selection to the history of nature -- From the units of inheritance to the origin of species -- Multicellularity and the developmental code -- Life cycle evolution : life and death of the ...

Biological evolution is the heritable change in characteristics of biological populations over successive generations, driven by mechanisms such as mutation, recombination, genetic drift, gene flow, ...

Nature is beautiful, powerful and essential. But nature is not always gentle. The same biological world that gives rise to ...

The biodiversity of the native plants and animals that live in the Hawaiian islands is breath-taking. On the northern and eastern sides of the islands, where the trade winds drop their moisture on ...

While the Vatican acknowledges stages of technological development, it lacks a model of integrating science and religion that can adequately assess the influence of technology. The Vatican's approach, ...

This post is in response to How Culture Makes Us Smarter By Steve Stewart-Williams Ph.D. Are we big-brained mammals who have out-evolved ourselves? 'The evidence for the hypothesis that cultural ...

CHM copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Introduction -- The organic analogy -- The classificatory analogy: building types and natural species -- The anatomical analogy: ...

In Part One of this series, we saw that culture doesn't suffer from the problem that Darwin's theory of natural selection successfully solved: the problem of how change accumulates in biological ...

New computational modeling of avian influenza variants' immunoprotein interactions—developed by a research team at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte—reveals the H5N1 influenza virus is ...