How bumblebees can help us understand the evolution of human memories
Researching the way other animals’ minds work can deepen our understanding of the human mind, especially when there are differences.
Researching the way other animals’ minds work can deepen our understanding of the human mind, especially when there are differences.
The accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant generated the largest release of radioactive material into the environment in human history.
Until the advent of cheap and efficient gene sequencing technology, appearance was usually all evolutionary biologists had to go on.
How information is processed in the human brain to make this possible has drawn endless fascination, yet no definitive answers.
Bitch, Lucy Cooke’s latest book, provides a radical and X-rated revaluation of ideas of sexuality in the animal kingdom.
From looks to brains and personality, humans will continue to evolve as we face new selective pressures.
From a revolutionary guide to sex, evolution and the female animal to an unfiltered memoir by singer Jarvis Cocker, here are the books to look out for this Spring.
150 years ago, Charles Darwin wrote about how expressions evolved, pushing theories that are becoming commonplace in 21st-century biology.
The way in which killer whales take food from fishing lines may mirror early human evolution.
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