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On many occasions. I've heard people remark about how they object to the cold, heartless view of life presented in Richard Dawkins's first book, The Selfish Gene. Such a comment [...]

The American Psychiatric Association added prolonged grief disorder to its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in 2022, and though the move was not universally applauded--'There is no uniform [...]

Here is a Roman joke: Two old friends who haven't seen each other in a while happen to meet in the street. One says to the other: 'Oh, hi! I [...]

Humans are not the animal kingdom's only fashionistas. Tits can be fashion-victims, too, apparently. A study published in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology by Sonja Wild and Lucy Aplin of the [...]

This is a response to Massimo Pigliucci's 'The Philosopher's Corner' column, 'A Different Take on E.O. Wilson,' in this issue, p. 26. The author, a distinguished zoologist and expert on [...]

On his 90th birthday in 2019, naturalist Edward 0. Wilson told National Geographic that he had one 'modest wish': for us to explore, identify, and protect every species on Earth. [...]

An old croc Beware of stereotyping extinct animals on the basis of modern examples COMPARED WITH mammals, living members of the crocodile clan have exceptionally boring dentition. From the slender-snouted [...]

A.D. 2013 UR WALK THROUGH TIME begins on a country lane in the village of Kingston Saint Mary, in southwestern England. This is a pilgrimage of sorts, a hike that [...]

Thanks for joining us at O and Aarti's e-Lectric House of Sizzle. Tonight we're serving hot licks with a sweet beat from the Opitulates. We'll also bring round a side [...]

The just-so story, as perfected by Rudyard Kipling, is a reverse-engineering narrative, You begin with a phenomenon--an animal with tough scaly skin, or with spots, or with a long prehensile [...]

BILL ANDREWS'S FEET are so large, he tells me, that back when he was 20 he was able to break the Southern California barefoot-waterskiing distance record the first time he [...]

Laugh and the World Laughs With You ... Laugh at your friends if your friends are sore, / So much the better, you may laugh the more. --Alexander Pope, English [...]

Byline: ZOHAR LAZAR RETRACTION HEROES THEY HAVE THE GUTS TO SAY 'I'M WRONG' What do you do when you discover you're wrong? That's a conundrum Daniel Bolnick recently faced. He's [...]

Canadian scientist Travis Quirk's research on striped skunks provides information on how their population is affected by food abundance and diet. The health condition of the female skunk and its liter determines their survival rate. Other details of the research are presented.

Popular commentators on evolution, such as Richard Dawkins, have become overly enamoured with the idea of the gene. Genetics is certainly the most powerful mechanism of evolution and was unknown [...]

On the front porch of an old Coast Guard station on Appledore Island, seven miles off the southern coast of Maine, Thomas Seeley and I sat next to 6,000 quietly [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDEighteen vials were rocking back and forth on a squeaky mechanical device the shape of a butcher scale, and Mark Lyte was beside himself with excitement. ''We actually got [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] After 333 days and 2,000 miles, wilderness savant Mike Fay found every last redwood. Now he wants to save them. 'I THOUGHT I'D BE ABLE to just Google [...]

Computers may give new life to old medicines MOST drugs have side-effects. One reason is that they interact with proteins other than the one they are being aimed at to [...]

And then she scored a century A new test can forecast extreme longevity IN PURSUIT of a long life, expect the dismal prescriptions of clean living: exercise, moderation and a [...]

A study was conducted to map the citation image of Conrad Hal Waddington, a developmental biologist and evolutionary theorist. Cocitation and tricitation approaches over three successive decades were used. Findings indicate that the changing scholarly landscape in which Waddington's work is demonstrated by changes in the image author set.