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Topic: Evolution (page 3)

Orangutans (Getty Images/Photo by James Keith)

Orangutans have their own "dialects"

Eric Schank
Megachile pluto, aka Wallace's Giant Bee (WikiCommons/Naturalis Biodiversity Center)

The parable of the world’s largest bee

Oliver Milman - Undark
Sunflower field at sunset (Kristina Lapinski)

The odd reason nature favors symmetry

Eric Schank
Evolution of Life on Earth illustration (Getty Images/Man_Half-tube)

New study turns evolution upside-down

Matthew Rozsa
Two lions asleep with their heads touching at the top and with ears touching in a cute and loving position (Getty Images/Gregory Sweeney)

The mystery of REM sleep

Matthew Rozsa
Dropped ice cream cone (Getty Images/Chris Clor)

Our evolutionary love of sugar

Stephen Wooding - The Conversation
Virus Spores (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How viruses made life possible

Matthew Rozsa
Model of Human Coronavirus, fractured (Getty Images/Alexandr Gnezdilov Light Painting)

Why COVID is unlikely to become deadlier

Nicole Karlis
A nurse attends to a COVID-19 patient that is wearing a CPAP helmet while he is moved out of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Pope John XXIII Hospital on April 7, 2020 in Bergamo, Italy. (Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images)

Sleep apnea and the failure of evolution

Matthew Rozsa
Crimson Rosella, Platycercus elegans, at O'Reilly's Lamington National Park, Queensland, Australia. (David Tipling/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Animals evolving as the climate changes

Matthew Rozsa
A baby grey headed flying fox bat hangs with its mother on January 27, 2020 in Bomaderry, Australia. (John Moore/Getty Images)

Bats use baby talk

Ahana Aurora Fernandez - The Conversation
Human Evolution Illustration (Getty Images/Man_Half-tube)

The evolution culture war quietly ends

Matthew Rozsa
Crowds arrive for the "Stop the Steal" rally on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Trump supporters gathered in the nation's capital today to protest the ratification of President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College victory over President Trump in the 2020 election. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Is fake news an evolutionary strategy?

Paul Rosenberg
Mallard Ducks Swimming In Lake (Getty Images/Colin Drewery)

How did duck sex get so weird?

Jess Thomson
The Joy Of Sweat by Sarah Everts (Photo illustration by Salon/Joerg Emes/W. W. Norton & Company)

Why sweating is a human "superpower"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Greedy (Getty Images)

Our genes aren't "selfish"

Jeremy Lent
Evolution Gone Wrong by Alexander Bezzerides (Photo illustration by Salon/Hanover Square Press/Kevin Grote)

The trade-offs of being human

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Shark GPS (Illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Want to confuse a shark? Use a magnet

Matthew Rozsa
Two Pterosaurs and a chimpanzee (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Meet the ancient "monkeydactyl"

Matthew Rozsa
Illustration of alien plants on a hospitable foreign planet (Getty Images)

A zoologist imagines alien life

Emily Cataneo - Undark
New York Yankees' Aroldis Chapman in action against the Miami Marlins (Jim McIsaac/Getty Images)

Humans are the best throwers on earth

Michael P. Lombardo, Robert Deaner - The Conversation
Man and cat do a fist bump (Getty Images)

How humans messed up cat faces

Matthew Rozsa
A patient infected by the covid-19 caused by the novel coronavirus receives treatment at the intensive care unit of a hospital in the southwestern Tunisian town of Gabes on August 26, 2020, as cases of infection surge there. (FETHI BELAID/AFP via Getty Images)

Will COVID evolve to be less deadly?

Wendy Orent - Undark
Sen. Kamala Harris of California, recently named as former Vice President Joe Biden's running mate. (Getty/Alex Edelman)

Harris and the evolution of the birds

Terri Langston - The Globalist
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