A long-disputed rule in biology says bigger is better, but a new computer model illuminates why that’s not necessarily true. By Lauren Leffer Published Jan 18, 2024 11:45 AM EST Add Popular Science ...

A controversial explanation for why human childbirth is so painful has enraged the internet. Elena Bridgers, a science writer and researcher who focuses on the evolution of motherhood, recently shared ...

A major research study is challenging one of evolution’s most influential ideas: that most genetic changes that become permanent are essentially neutral. Researchers at the University of Michigan ...

A review examines the prevailing theory of cancer evolution. The authors highlight both practical and theoretical limitations of the clonal model of cancer evolution and propose areas for improving ...

Number theory, the study of the properties of positive integers, is perhaps the purest form of mathematics. At first sight, it may seem far too abstract to apply to the natural world. In fact, the ...

In the 1996 book Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, the philosopher Daniel Dennett argues that evolution might be the best idea anyone ever came up with. “If I were to give an award,” Dennett writes, “I’d give ...

An international team of researchers has developed a new theoretical framework that bridges physics and biology to provide a unified approach for understanding how complexity and evolution emerge in ...

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