Evolution

The human family tree gets more complicated

We have a lot to learn about adaptability from a bird who evolved to swim

Jessica Riskin’s three greatest revelations while writing Power of Life

A conversation with paleobiologist Douglas Erwin about how novelty becomes true innovation in biological and cultural evolution

They’re flying on a wing and a prayer

Why early hominins opted for the to-go option

They’re the botanical versions of Darwin’s finches

There was a time when one eye was better than two

They had the right genes for it

It wasn’t a lateral evolutionary move

How verbal humor arose and how it protects us

Ancient canid DNA pushes date of dog domestication back millennia