Evolution

Perhaps intelligent life wasn’t so unlikely after all

Why do humans have such stupid knees, ankles, and backs?

How we adapt is shifting

Which came first: colorful signals or the color vision needed to see them?

From cells to cellphones, trial and error shapes it all

How evolution wired us to act against our own best interests

How one animal's oddity inspired Sewall Wright to take on one of Darwin's big ideas

Our appetite for fish can alter their bodies, minds, and behaviors

The first evolutionary tree that includes every avian species

A fossilized ocean reef on a mountaintop may hold clues to the evolution of complex life

An evolutionary biologist clears up common myths

The language we share with plants—and all life under the sun.