A recent fossil discovery in Spain is giving paleontologists exciting new data about the similarities between dinosaur eggs from prehistoric times and modern-day bird eggs.

The famed australopithecine “Lucy” might have run into more than just her own species when she roamed Eastern Africa 3.2 million years ago.

This year's meeting of the International Studies Association featured a panel organized exclusively around Steven Pinker's book. Steven Pinker's book, "The Better Angels of Our Nature," has been getting substantial media attention this year, and it makes what many see as a surprising and counterintuitive claim about the decline of violence in human evolutionary history. Now, the academics weigh in. This year's meeting of the International Studies Association featured a panel organized exclusively around Pinker's book.

Two controversies lurk beneath an impressive display of interdisciplinarityRecently, we at <em>Evolution: This View of Life</em> had the pleasure of attending and covering the first annual conference on “Consilience”—or the unity of the sciences, social sciences, and the humanities. The conference, of which we at ETVOL hope to see many future iterations, was organized and hosted by Joseph Carroll of the University of Missouri in St. Louis.

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Eight criticisms that no one should be making about group selection.

A large study of killings in chimp communities across Africa has cast new light on the dark side of our closest living relatives.

The evolution of intelligence and larger brain sizes can be driven by cooperation and teamwork.

Primatologist Organizes Conference in Sicily on June 17-22

Are taboos ignorant superstitions, do they contain adaptive wisdom, or are they a mixture of both?