Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I write about the world of biology. The world’s largest nocturnal primate—the aye-aye—is steeped in superstition in its native ..

Aye-ayes are nocturnal and are famed for having an extended middle finger which they use to find food inside logs and trees. They have evolved to feed rather like woodpeckers, tapping the bark ...

Natural selection has allowed the aye-aye's wonderfully mutated finger to spread through the population. And this same law applies to all life. If you have a mutation that helps you in the ...