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.
Gene expression controlled from afar may have spurred the spurt in brain evolution that led to modern humans.
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Antibiotic resistant bacteria keep their protective genes, even when antibiotics are no longer given.
Scientists are beginning to discover myriad strategies tumors use to avoid attacks by anti-cancer drugs.
Lynn Margulis, an innovative thinker who proposed symbiosis as a major mechanism for speciation, passed away last week.
A team of paleontologists is racing to recover dozens of fossilized whale skeletons from the site of a road building excavation in northern Chile.
Traits that help one sex but hurt the other are not sufficient for maintaining genetic variation.
A new study suggests a possible link between the use of oral contraceptives and rising prostate cancer rates.
Hundreds of rare giant land snails held in captivity in New Zealand froze to death after the temperature probes in their containers failed.