Masters of the Planet, Learning from the Octopus, Darwin’s Devices, and Psychology’s Ghosts
Masters of the Planet, Learning from the Octopus, Darwin’s Devices, and Psychology’s Ghosts
House mice sing melodies out of the range of human hearing, and the crooning is impacting research from evolutionary biology to neuroscience.
An evolutionary biologist’s posthumous publication restores the peppered moth to its iconic status as a textbook example of evolution.
Research on an 18th and 19th century Finnish population suggests that agriculture and monogamy may not have stopped human evolution.
A new meta-analysis of farming practices suggests that traditional methods of cultivating food plants result in heftier harvests than do organic strategies.
Chinese scientists claim to have cloned a lamb carrying a roundworm gene that aids in the production of polyunsaturated fatty acids.
A genetic analysis reveals that the polar bear split from the brown bear some 600,000 years ago.
Scientists show that manmade nucleic acids can replicate and evolve, ushering in a new era in synthetic biology.
A new law opens the door to teaching creationism and climate change denialism in the state's public schools.