May 2013's selection of notable quotes
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.
Animal-rights activists devastate a psychiatric research lab at the University of Milan.
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.
A new survey finds a high incidence of sexual harassment and rape among women doing anthropological field work.
This dramatic science fiction film follows a grieving father using his research to understand his infant son’s gruesome death—and explores the culture and ethics of science along the way.