The study of animal behaviour in ecological and evolutionary contexts examines how behavioural traits develop, persist and interact with environmental challenges. Research in this field investigates ...

A new study reveals how cultural evolution, not biology, enabled humans to inhabit diverse environments across the globe.

Water is the essence of life; yet in the natural world, there are many examples of the opposite being true. There are many ...

Climate change challenges us to rethink the entire narrative of human progress and a range of unsustainable political and social practices. This process will be deeply disturbing yet potentially ...

For decades, ecologists lumped everything bad for animals under one word: stress. But what if animals don't experience harsh environments as stressful at all? What if it is the opposite?Animals have ...