Tag: Evolutionary biology
Evolving intelligent life took billions of years − but it may...
Daniel Brady Mills, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich; Jason Wright, Penn State, and Jennifer L. Macalady, Penn State
A...
Rare Florida fossil finally ends debate about how porcupine jaws and...
Natasha S. Vitek, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
A rare, nearly complete fossil of an...
Power struggles in nature can be more subtle, nuanced and strategic...
Lee Alan Dugatkin, University of Louisville
Scientists used to think power in animals played out in a tidy and...
Axolotls can regenerate their brains – these adorable salamanders are helping...
Ashley Maynard, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
The axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) is an aquatic salamander renowned for its...
Deer have antlers, walruses have tusks – here’s why so few...
Alexandre V. Palaoro, Clemson University and João C. T. Menezes, UMass Amherst
Mating season in the animal kingdom can...
Genetic GPS system of animal development explains why limbs grow from...
Ethan Bier, University of California San Diego
Why do human look like humans, rather than like chimps? Although we...
Evolution doesn’t proceed in a straight line – so why draw...
Quentin Wheeler, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry; Antonio G. Valdecasas, CSIC - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, and...
Bird DNA helps explain Amazonian rivers’ role in evolution
Luciano Nicolas Naka, Harvard University
When the young naturalist Alfred R. Wallace left England to explore the New World in 1848, one of his key...
EXPLORING NATURE
Stone tool discovery in China shows people in East Asia were...
Ben Marwick, University of Washington
New technologies today often involve electronic devices that are smaller and smarter than before....
