Our brains are designed to misjudge reality. Evolution favors survival over truth, leading to predictable errors in ...

When we think of evolution, we think of slow, gradual changes in animal and plant species over millions, perhaps even hundreds of millions, of years.It took humans, for example, an estimated six ...

Recent discoveries using lab-grown brain organoids, or "mini-brains," suggest that testosterone increases brain size while ...

People have been celebrating the summer solstice with elaborate rituals since prehistoric times. But humans aren't the only ...

Instead, from a cell type perspective, it is clear that ... peculiarities can only be understood from an evolutionary viewpoint; for example, the migration of hypothalamal gonadatropin-releasing ...

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BEIJING -- Chinese researchers have discovered molecular evidence supporting a long-debated evolutionary theory, showing that rice plants can pass on cold tolerance to their offspring -- a ...

Information Theory and Evolution discusses the phenomenon of life, including its origin and evolution (and also human cultural evolution), against the background of thermodynamics, statistical ...