May 2013's selection of notable quotes
American naturalist Louis Agassiz had a zeal for collecting that encouraged a nation to engage with nature.
Researchers identify a herpesvirus gene persisting in the cells of calves suffering from malignant catarrhal disease.
Better health care in Gambian villages lead to flip-flopping selection pressures on height and weight.
One of the surviving UK homes of pioneering but long-overlooked evolutionary theorist Alfred Russel Wallace is on the market.
Researchers use bacteria to deliver radiation to shrink pancreatic tumors in mice.
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.
Fossilized skeletal remains of the hominid Australopithecus sediba add to the puzzle of human evolution.
Researchers can identify individuals by the unique chemical signatures in their breath, suggesting that exhalations could be used for metabolomic tests.