EvolutionSeptember 6, 2018
Hurricane Is a Natural Selection Experiment
When Hurricane Irma blew through the Turks and Caicos, lizards with shorter hindlimbs lucked out. Jason G. Goldman reports.
Evolution
BiologySeptember 5, 2018
Here's Looking at Humanity, Kid
Senior Editor Gary Stix talks about the September special issue of Scientific American, devoted to the science of being human. And Brown University evolutionary biologist Ken Miller discusses human chromosome 2 and what it tells us about us.
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EvolutionSeptember 1, 2018
“Death Masks” Reveal How Earliest Complex Organisms Became Fossils
A new experiment suggests our picture of the so-called Ediacarans may be incomplete
EvolutionSeptember 1, 2018
2 Mental Abilities Separate Humans from Animals
Two key features created the human mind
EvolutionSeptember 1, 2018
The Origins of Human Morality
How we learned to put our fate in one another’s hands
EvolutionSeptember 1, 2018
What Makes the Human Brain Special
Parts of the brain involved in language and cognition have enlarged greatly over an evolutionary timescale
EvolutionSeptember 1, 2018
Why Is Homo sapiens the Sole Surviving Member of the Human Family?
Recent fossil, archaeological and genetic discoveries are revising the rise of our species
ChemistrySeptember 1, 2018
The Ancient Roots of the Internal Combustion Engine
Taking apart the internal combustion engine reveals our collective genius
EvolutionSeptember 1, 2018
A Very Human Story: Why Our Species Is Special
EvolutionSeptember 1, 2018
The Cultural Origins of Language
What makes language distinctly human
EvolutionSeptember 1, 2018
War Is Not Part of Human Nature
War may not be in our nature after all
CognitionSeptember 1, 2018
Are Humans the Only Conscious Animal?
Decoding the puzzle of human consciousness