Researchers have found surprising links that show that Neanderthal ancestry influences our immune system today in ways more nuanced than previously recognized. Their work is published in the journal ...

In ‘A Voice in the Wilderness,’ Joseph L. Graves Jr. discusses his scientific journey, how he debates racists, and more.

In evolutionary biology, all life on Earth is theoretically part of a single phylogenetic tree, indicating common ancestry.

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Every human voice is acoustically unique. The anatomy and evolutionary history behind that fact turns out to be one of ...

If you could travel back roughly 250 million years, you would not see the Earth you know today. Instead, you would arrive at ...

Macrophages have some startling similarities to amoebae. (RUSLANAS BARANAUSKAS/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) You ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andréa Morris reports on emergent intelligence in diverse systems. “Where are all the genetic cures?” asks Denis Noble, a ...

The answer has less to do with morning people’s discipline than with deep evolutionary history, and a molecular clock ticking ...

Numerical information only (in the tables above) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International. China’s lead in the Nature Index is growing, but for how ...