May 2013's selection of notable quotes
American naturalist Louis Agassiz had a zeal for collecting that encouraged a nation to engage with nature.
The 92-year-old bacterial geneticist who helped pioneer the study of gene regulation has passed away.
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.
Francis Crick’s Nobel Prize medal for the discovery of the structure of DNA sold for 4 times its estimated value.
Fossilized skeletal remains of the hominid Australopithecus sediba add to the puzzle of human evolution.