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Evolution

Evolution Is Really Not That Into Sex

Plants and animals have reproduced without sex for eons. So why did nature bother?

May 15, 2019

Why We Stink at Tackling Climate Change

Global threats result from human culture outrunning human biology.

February 20, 2019

Why Evolution Reversed These Insects’ Sex Organs

Among these cave insects, the females evolved to have penises—twice. The reasons challenge common assumptions about sex.

January 31, 2019

How Alan Turing Deciphered Shark Skin

The universal math behind hair and feathers.

January 2, 2019

Three Biochemists Win Chemistry Nobel for Directing Evolution

By using the power of evolution to solve practical problems, three researchers opened new avenues to chemical discovery.

October 30, 2018

Why Nature Prefers Couples, Even for Yeast

Some species have the equivalent of many more than two sexes, but most do not. A new model suggests the reason depends on how often they mate.

July 18, 2018

Why Social Science Needs Evolutionary Theory

Evolutionary theory has the potential to transform education and, through it, society.

June 14, 2018

Bombers and Pterosaurs Were Both Before Their Time

The evolution of B-2s and lizards.

April 16, 2018