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Drexel University's James Tengorra, a mechanical engineer, suggests using dinosaur robots as an efficient way to study dinosaur fossils.

This year's meeting of the International Studies Association featured a panel organized exclusively around Steven Pinker's book. Steven Pinker's book, "The Better Angels of Our Nature," has been getting substantial media attention this year, and it makes what many see as a surprising and counterintuitive claim about the decline of violence in human evolutionary history. Now, the academics weigh in. This year's meeting of the International Studies Association featured a panel organized exclusively around Pinker's book.

The discovery challenges the widely held assumption that a period of explosive evolution quickly follows for survivors of mass extinctions.

Paleontologists have found three tiny lobster fossils inside the fossil shell of a Jurassic mollusk.

The checks and balances built into the U.S. Constitution and the invisible hand of the market must be supplemented by the insights of evolutionary theory.

The public narrative of unregulated self-interest is so dominant and oppressive that proponents of cooperation are made to appear like “freaks”

New journal tackles the nexus between science and diplomacy.

A 100-million-year-old fossil flower indicates tulip trees diverged from their close relatives magnolias long ago - the tulip tree was a sight probably enjoyed by the dinosaurs.

In the spirit of science as a process of constructive disagreement, ETVOL is pleased to feature Jerry Coyne's response.

A joint research project conducted at UNIL and EPFL enabled the scientists to follow the evolution of communication in 100 group

A disagreement between the twin giants of genetic theory.