The story of Charles Darwin’s life. His theory of evolution changed the way we understood our place in the world.

Research suggests that crying is not a sign of weakness, but one of the most sophisticated social technologies in the natural world.

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

Trying to understand human behavior (a basic feature of our species, shaped by natural selection) without understanding evolutionary principles would be like trying to understand the details of a car ...