Evolutionary trends observed over large clades have the potential to mask underlying trends that occur within their constituent subclades. A recent study of encephalization in the Caniformia ...

There’s a reason why not all species can do calculus. A new model species offers insight into why. It’s not easy being smart. Oscar Wilde once lamented: “I am so clever that sometimes I don’t ...

After taking a fresh look at an old fossil, John Flynn, Frick Curator of Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History, and colleagues determined that the brains of the ancestors of modern ...