Cancer treatment may not always need total eradication. Adaptive therapy could help control tumors and delay drug resistance.

Evolutionary biologist Judson (Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation) delivers an impressive study of the intermingled ...

In the grand story of evolution, the crowning human distinction is our big brain. But our large heads have been slow to recognize a less admirable trait of Homo sapiens—self-centeredness. The human ...

Why is there sex—or, more precisely, sexual reproduction? If you're an evolutionary biologist, the answer isn't obvious.

Amid this controversy, Russian biologist Ilya Ivanov set out in the mid-1920s to crossbreed humans and chimpanzees. Ivanov argued that successfully creating a "humanzee" would demonstrate biological ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The fear that grips you at the edge of a balcony is older ...

The human little toe is shrinking, but not the way most people assume. A biologist explains relaxed selection, fused toe bones and why shoes aren't to blame.

A leading evolutionary biologist whose textbooks on evolution are widely read by college students around the country will receive the prestigious Joseph Leidy Award, the Academy of Natural Sciences of ...

Males and females as a population, on average, are different. Beyond obvious differences in reproductive systems, research ...