Ant bridges and bird-built pergolas: What animal architecture teaches us about evolution
Science is investigating this field to better understand how complex behaviors evolve in nature
Small Tennessee town observes 100 years of the ‘Scopes monkey trial’ that condemned the teaching of evolution
A young biology professor was prosecuted in Dayton in 1925 for teaching Darwin’s theory, a conflict that continues a century later. The trial was the first to be broadcast live on the radio
Why are women the only primates with enlarged breasts?
A new study challenges the idea that female breasts originated through sexual selection, suggesting that other factors, such as the number of estrogen receptors may play a role
The dawn of a new medicine: Researchers use the theory of evolution to fight cancer
The world’s first joint research program in evolutionary medical genomics has been launched in Barcelona, under the direction of biologist Manuel Irimia
The oldest bacterial structures that filled the planet with oxygen have been discovered
Cyanobacteria from almost two billion years ago had an organelle present in the photosynthesis of modern-day algae and plants
We are ‘cooknivores’: How cooking forever changed our digestive systems
Preparing food with heat drastically modified the anatomy and physiology of human beings and made us different from other animals, so much so that it’s no longer a choice: a strict raw diet implies health problems
What makes humans unique are 10,000 missing bits of DNA
Comparative genomic studies of 240 species shed light on the origin and evolution of mammals, and the special attributes of people