Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of NPR's Short Wave podcast talk about the evolutionary history of kissing, how moss spores fare in space, and new clues about the collision that created the moon.

Summary: Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum explore why consciousness evolved and why different species developed it in distinct ways. By comparing humans with birds, they show that complex ...

Kissing is more than just “mouth-to-mouth” touching, and the study doesn’t really shed much light on why humans kiss the way ...

We humans evolved to be social creatures. By gaining the skills to cooperate with others, we were able to stave off predators, eat more consistently, and care for each other’s young, allowing our ...

Co-evolutionary genetics of ecological communities offers a new understanding of adaptation and gene function that cannot be obtained from genomic data without an ecological context. Some ...

The proposal that evolution could be used as a metaphor for problem solving came with the invention of the computer 1. In the 1970s and 1980s the principal idea was developed into different ...

According to evolutionary psychologists at the University of California at Santa Barbara, generosity–acting to help others in the absence of foreseeable gain–emerges naturally from the evolution of ...

Discover the nature, dynamics, and principles of ecological and evolutionary systems. Solve problems affecting the natural world and improve the future of ecological systems and the humans who depend ...

Evolution determines who lives, who dies, and who passes traits on to the next generation. The process plays a critical role in our daily lives, yet it is one of the most overlooked -- and ...

Crocodylians are the last living representatives of the crocodylomorpha, an even bigger group that originated over 205 million years ago. David Ponton / Design Pics / Corbis When we think about the ...

"It doesn't take a degree in biology to notice that men and women are utterly different." Imagine Larry Summers making that statement when he was president of Harvard, instead of the much milder query ...