The human ability to cook may seem ordinary, but it marks one of the most important evolutionary turning points in our ...

The whites of your eyes are not an accident. They are, scientists now believe, one of the most sophisticated social ...

Charles Darwin once noted that natural selection tends to preserve traits that conceal an animal in nature. It can paint camouflage onto their bodies with astonishing quickness: The peppered moth’s ...

Your taste in music may feel unique, but there may be something more biologically innate driving your acoustic choices: A new study found that animals and humans tend to prefer many of the same ...