The need for ancient humans to keep cool during the day might explain their lack of body hair but not why they walked on two feet.
The need for ancient humans to keep cool during the day might explain their lack of body hair but not why they walked on two feet.
A snapshot of the most highly ranked articles in evolutionary biology and related areas, from Faculty of 1000
Lynn Margulis, an innovative thinker who proposed symbiosis as a major mechanism for speciation, passed away last week.
Traits that help one sex but hurt the other are not sufficient for maintaining genetic variation.
Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows, Harvard University. Age: 28
In the memory circuits of the aging brain and the signaling pathways of pain, science is trading mystery for mastery.
A snapshot of the most highly ranked articles in evolutionary biology, from Faculty of 1000
Two newly described fossils suggest that wood is some 10 million years older than previous believed.
Scientists discover that ancestors of the unicellular fungi can synthesize essential biomolecules with only trace levels of O2.