American naturalist Louis Agassiz had a zeal for collecting that encouraged a nation to engage with nature.
American naturalist Louis Agassiz had a zeal for collecting that encouraged a nation to engage with nature.
Better health care in Gambian villages lead to flip-flopping selection pressures on height and weight.
Researchers in the Amazon are measuring how much carbon dioxide fertilizes the rainforest.
One of the surviving UK homes of pioneering but long-overlooked evolutionary theorist Alfred Russel Wallace is on the market.
A new study suggests that in the Spanish Habsburg royal family, natural selection may have diminished the most harmful effects of inbreeding.
Today’s tulip trees carry similar mitochondrial DNA as those that grew in the time of the dinosaurs.
Hot topics from the AACR meeting; the ongoing debate about pesticides’ effects on bees; a treasure trove of baby dinos; conservation on social media
Fossilized skeletal remains of the hominid Australopithecus sediba add to the puzzle of human evolution.
Female preference may have driven the evolution of human males’ relatively large genitalia.
Scientists are stumped as to why hundreds of starved pups have been washing up on the California shore.