Goosebumps might be a common phenomenon we experience in our lives, as they were for our ancestors, but they might play an ...
The number of known proteins is infinitely small in comparison to the universe of possible proteins, which could in theory be ...
New research is significantly revising a widely cited evolutionary model, the Inhibitory Cascade Mode (ICM). Benjamin Auerbach, professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the ...
The human ability to cook may seem ordinary, but it marks one of the most important evolutionary turning points in our ...
Biologists are closing in on a puzzle that seems to turn classic evolutionary logic inside out, yet may be so common that it deserves to be called a new rule of life. Instead of always purging harmful ...
Researchers from the University of Sydney have developed a system that mimics natural selection inside living mammalian cells but in a very controlled setting. They call it PROTEUS, short for PROTein ...
In Part One of this series, we saw that culture doesn't suffer from the problem that Darwin's theory of natural selection successfully solved: the problem of how change accumulates in biological ...