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A killer whale in the Salish Sea is observed harassing a porpoise, a behavior that has long perplexed scientists. A study from Wi...

Creationism in Crisis How Humans Evolved to Live in Cold Climates Most humans haven't evolved to cope with the cold, yet we dominate nor...

Chimpanzee stone tool diversity | Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Female chimpanzee cracking Panda oleosa nuts using a granodiorite hammerstone on...

Shared grooming among bonobos is indicative of their group dynamics, which includes tolerance and cooperation. Photo: Martin Surbeck C...

The life cycle of the hairworm After hatching in the water, hairworm larvae parasitize aquatic insects and form a cyst in the hosts’ body c...

'Healing' crystals Photo credit: Hasan Can Devsir/Unsplash (CC-BY) Pagan 'metaphysical' shops navigate threats from Ch...

Great tits ( Parus major ) can change their culture to become more efficient Great tits change their traditions for the better | University ...

Common wood pigeon, Columba palumbus I'm sitting in my garden enjoying a beautiful sunny summer day with a light breeze. About ten f...

Complex societies gave birth to big gods - CSH Locations of the 30 sampled regions on the world map, labelled according to precolonial e...

The buff-tailed bumblebee, Bombus terrestris . Source: Wikipedia Associative Mechanisms Allow for Social Learning and Cultural Transmis...

Genetic connectivity across marginal habitats: the elephants of the Namib Desert - Ecology and Evolution. The importance of intelligent, m...

Genghis Khan. Unknown artist. Genghis Khan's genetic legacy has competition : Nature News & Comment . A technical paper publish...

Martyrdom of St Stephen One man's heroic martyr is another man's deluded fool or misguided idiot who probably deserved what he got...

A particularly malignant form of the religion virus hit Paris yesterday when three infected individuals, directed by the virus, tried to sup...

A group-specific arbitrary tradition in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) - Online First - Springer Ever since Richard Dawkins coined the term...

American-born primatologist Alison Jolly , who sadly died on 6th February in Lewes, East Sussex, UK, was a Visiting Scientist at the Univers...

I had a brief encounter with a mouse the other day. Not one quite so dramatic as Burns' - it's a long while now since I followed a h...

Announcing the coveted Darwin Creationist Award 2013! Stand by for another summer of glorious moronitude as creationists struggle to put a...

Outside near my garden right now is a male Blackbird in a beech tree announcing to the blackbird world, and particularly to any spare female...

Look at the lovely viruses! Ever since Richard Dawkins introduced the idea of memes in The Selfish Gene people have speculated on the na...