Geerat Vermeij's latest book explores a new approach to thinking about the evolution of life through the accumulation of 'power,' defined as the ability of organisms to take up or expend energy. (UC ...

Darwin's On the Origins of Species was breathtaking -- beautifully written, staunchly defended, defiantly radical. Yet it emerged long before paleontologists and geologists worked out the chronology ...

In our modern society, aging tends to be something we ignore, and then try to avoid. Mainstream culture is geared toward the young, using the youth to gauge trends and styles, and targeting their ...

A new book by biblical scholar Dr. Dru Johnson, visiting associate professor of religion at Hope College, moves beyond the either-or debate in exploring what the Bible and evolutionary science say ...

1. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker This must read looks at the concepts of the blank slate, the noble savage, and the ghost in the machine in an exploration of ...

Cat Bohannon’s new book, Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution, opens with a fact so thoroughly detached from beauty myths and the beauty industry that it makes every ...

Imagine being a paleontologist exploring Utah’s Jurassic-aged rocks. Imagine discovering the bones of a 20-meter-long, 20-ton herbivorous dinosaur. Then consider: How could any beast become so big?

A conversation with Francis Collins. Editor’s note: Science in Focus is on vacation in July, so we’re going to the archives for science-related pieces from the pages of Books & Culture. This week ...

Why do you have five fingers? Why not ten, or twenty, or one? Why do so many animals have five fingers? Five seems to be the perfect number for most hands. Oddly, the first vertebrates to come onto ...

"I don't want to give away anything, but it is weird as hell." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. There's finally a sequel to ...

Despite the common e-book myths and backlashes, e-books have become the new face of famous textbooks and titles for bibliophiles. Its popularity shows a gradual increase, with a projected growth of ...