The brain areas that control vocal learning in birds are strikingly similar to language regions in the human brain -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
During feel-good holiday periods like Christmas and Eid-al-Fitr, romance strikes—leading to a boom in births nine months later. Karen Hopkin reports. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Darwin thought evolution was too slow to change the environment on observable timescales—ecologists are discovering that he was wrong -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Areas of Kenya without large wildlife saw tick populations rise as much as 370 percent—meaning more danger to humans. Jason G. Goldman reports. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Areas of Kenya without large wildlife saw tick populations rise as much as 370 percent—meaning more danger to humans. Jason G. Goldman reports. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The tools could suggest that Homo sapiens reached South Asia far earlier than previously thought, but critics disagree -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
A study that compares us with other primates finds a brain region linked to social behavior that may offer a biological explanation for why humans, not chimps, produced Shakespeare, Gandhi and... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The geese are wintering farther and farther north, in urban areas like Chicago—which may help them avoid hunters. Emily Schwing reports. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com