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On the enduring value of natural history museums and the study of life’s species

Imprinted genes may affect the timing of pregnancy and nursing in humans.

Support, and a backlash, for the trendy new shoes; a Harvard professor offers an evolutionary perspective.

Cutting-edge science helps historians push further and more fully into the past.

Energy is the key to understanding human evolution—and to saving ourselves and our planet, says Daniel Lieberman.

For this systems biologist, the interaction of science and music is multiplicative.

History professor Daniel Lord Smail explores the role of psychotropic mechanisms in human evolution and history.