Evolution

Risk Aversion And Evolution: Biologically, You Should Love The One You're With

In modern culture, people are taught not to settle. Settling is, of course, subjective and people change so when psychologists are in charge, there are a lot of divorces. What about when science was in charge? Is it better to settle or hold out for the bes ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 13 2024 - 5:11pm

Toward A Unified Theory Of How Language Evolved

Humans are the only species on earth that uses language, combining sounds into words and words into sentence with infinite meanings. We do this using linguistic rules for calls and sentence structure. "A dog eats" tells us one thing while "a ...

Article - News Staff - May 9 2025 - 4:28pm

On Progress

The human race has made huge progress in the past few thousand years, gradually improving the living condition of human beings by learning how to cure illness; improving farming; harvesting, storing, and using energy in several forms; and countless other a ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 12 2025 - 12:03am

The Lizard Poop Of Madagascar

Some 88 million years ago, Madagascar broke off from India. Isolated from all other landmasses, plants and animals evolved in seclusion, creating a biodiversity hotspot unlike anywhere else on Earth. One way biodiversity spreads is by endozoochory, which i ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 9 2025 - 10:57am