Evolution has long been a topic of controversy in the United States and has been the target of laws and public policies. As part of the Origins Science Scholars series, Kenneth Miller of Brown ...

Evolution is a continuous, powerful force shaping the natural world around us. As environmental pressures intensify, future animal evolution is likely to produce fascinating and sometimes bizarre new ...

In the course of evolution organisms sometimes acquire completely new and sometimes dramatic features, like horns or new appendages. The evolutionary origins of new structures are much more difficult ...

This is Part 4 of a five-part series on cognition and consciousness. Part 1 explored what we mean by "cognition." In Parts 2 and 3, we examined neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux’s strict definition, which ...