The Scopes “monkey trial” garnered international attention, and the battle that was fought continues in some form in other ...

A young biology professor was prosecuted in Dayton in 1925 for teaching Darwin’s theory, a conflict that continues a century ...

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In the forests of eastern Australia, satin bowerbirds create structures known as “bowers.” The males gather twigs and place ...

Watching a mummy being unravelled lit a spark in a young Alice Roberts, setting her on a path of science and discovery.

A chromosome glitch in beetleweed reveals how genome doubling can drive rapid plant evolution and create new species in real ...

RFK Jr.'s rise reveals how pseudoscience paranoia now hold political power. Conceived in the late 19th century, the survival ...

That sums up the deep secrets that have come to light in new research into human evolution, which have turned our ...

Currently enjoying a resurgence, writer with an original voice has many connections to Hampstead, writes Bernard Canavan ...

Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate. Publishing in Cell Genomics, researchers have identified a genetic variant ...

By physically engineering their environments, megafauna such as dinosaurs curbed fruit seed sizes—a role that now may be ...

Mounting evidence from genome studies indicates that, contrary to received wisdom, our species has undergone profound ...