If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

Explore the human childbirth evolutionary dimension and how genes shape birth timing and risk factors for preterm births. The Pith: In this post I review a paper which covers the evolutionary ...

Human evolution is not a straight line but a complex branching tree shared with other great apes. This overview explains the ...

Laugh all you want now about Grandma's 8 p.m. bedtime; after reading this, you might just want to thank her. One team of researchers report that older adults' earlier body clocks may have evolved to ...