This View of Life
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An 800,000-year-old tooth that paleontologists originally thought belonged to an elephant is actually from a miniature-sized mammoth.

What if it turned out, though, that expectant fathers molded babies, too, and not just by way of genes?

How elite competition can lead to unequal outcomes.

Empirically demonstrating the pace of cultural evolution.

As a new evolutionary process, however, our origin was almost as momentous as the origin of life.

How chimpanzees and bonobos exchange favors.

Studies of dolphins, primates and humans show the reason we choose the companions we do is more complex, and perhaps less honorable, than we might think.

What does theology--as distinct from the scholarly study of religion--contribute to our understanding of religion from an evolutionary perspective?

If true, the study, casts doubt on the idea that modern humans and Neanderthals co-existed.

When a Western scrub jay dies, researchers report, other jays may hold a kind of funeral.

Key mental developments within the human lineage may have been linked with a highly variable environment.

This universality already suggests that there could be a good evolutionary reason for pruney fingers.