Tag: Evolutionary genetics
A taste for sweet – an anthropologist explains the evolutionary origins...
Stephen Wooding, University of California, Merced
The sweetness of sugar is one of life’s great pleasures. People’s love for sweet is so visceral, food...
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...
Fast evolution explains the tiny stature of extinct ‘Hobbit’ from Flores...
José Alexandre Felizola Diniz-Filho, Universidade Federal de Goias and Pasquale Raia, University of Naples Federico II
It’s not every day that scientists discover a new...
Galapagos giant tortoises make a comeback, thanks to innovative conservation strategies
James P. Gibbs, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
The Galapagos Islands are world-famous as a laboratory of biological evolution....
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
