Evolving, The Moral Molecule, Aping Mankind, and Experiment Eleven
Evolving, The Moral Molecule, Aping Mankind, and Experiment Eleven
The discovery of the 2.5-million-year-old Taung Child skull marked a turning point in the study of human brain evolution.
Silk impregnated with bleach may provide a new way to fight the formidable spores of the anthrax bacterium.
The second of the two controversial bird flu papers is published in Science, revealing that just five mutations can render the virus transmissible between ferrets.
Researchers rediscover a giant insect, thought to have gone extinct a century ago, and plan to reintroduce it to its native island off the coast of Australia.
In pondering genome structure and function, evolutionary geneticist Laurence Hurst has arrived at some unanticipated conclusions about how natural selection has molded our DNA.
Plant pests are evolving to outsmart common herbicides, costing farmers crops and money.
Ancient bacteria living in deep-sea sediments are alive—but with metabolisms so slow that it’s hard to tell.