What’s the point of exercise?

Charles Darwin’s ‘tree of life’ gets a new look

Retracing paths that people first traversed while migrating to the Americas

Immunotherapy, The Evolution Of Eyebrows, Unconventional Bird Calls. April 13, 2018, Part 2

Evolution

Unweaving the Rainbow

You say you want an Evolution?

Alpha

Darwin: A Life In Poems

The Art Instinct

More From Denis Dutton

Spencer Wells

Ruth Padel: “Survival of the Fittest”

Homo-Thespian

Rhymes With Australopithecus

Homo-Thespian

Bonus Track: More from Dutton

Decoding Nature’s Most Elaborate Mating Dances

Decoding Nature’s Most Elaborate Mating Dances

Homo-Thespian

Darwin’s Life in Verse

The Art Instinct

Museum of God

New book sheds light on the amazing capabilities of jellyfish, addresses myths and misperceptions

Dr. Jane Goodall on her work with chimpanzees, and the new documentary ‘JANE’

Neanderthals went extinct, but many of us still carry around fragments of their DNA

Florida allows any resident to challenge textbooks — and it has some science supporters concerned

What the aye-aye and the woodpecker can tell us about how evolution works

A new book examines ‘The Book that Changed America’

A little lizard in Puerto Rico is adapting quickly to big-city life

Do you really understand the ‘lion in your living room’?

If other animals can regenerate their limbs, why can’t humans?

More surprising things about the octopus, our favorite cephalopod

Her 4-foot-10 frame helped her discover a new human ancestor

Giant Scorpions, Love in The Time of Tech, American Crime

ISIS Propaganda, A Drug Czar, and Evolving Human Values

ISIS Propaganda, A Drug Czar, and Evolving Human Values

We’re toast, genetically speaking. (Well, a little bit.)

Scientists roll back evolution by turning a chick’s beak into a ‘dino-snout’

A new study pieces together the puzzle of insect evolution

Chimps can learn behavior from one another, a new study shows

From gills to gonads, you’re more like a fish than you may believe

From gills to gonads, you’re more like a fish than you may believe

A scientist-artist recreates human ancestors by studying their bones

How Insects Influence Plant Evolution

New research finds rapid evolution in plants to resist predatory insects

Researchers suggest your basic political leanings may be coded in your genes

Debate over evolution: Destiny or happenstance?

Evolution in Action

Evolution in Action

Bacteria Biofuel

The Living on Earth Almanac

The Future of Artificial Intelligence

Emerging Science Note/Ocean Life Evolution

Bacteria Biofuel

Survivor: Planet Earth

Spore: a marriage of evolutionary biology and computer simulated games

Look at Charles Darwin’s legacy as the theory of evolution turns 150, A

Evolution