THIS book is the outcome of a lifetime of biological reflection and investigation, and will be read with much interest. The author, who left Edinburgh for Philadelphia many years ago, was early ...

It was the world’s first murder. The ape-man exultantly threw his club (actually the leg bone of a zebra) into the air, and, as it spun, it morphed into an orbiting space station. In this stunning ...

We tend to think of evolution as a one-way process: simpler beings gradually advancing to become more sophisticated lifeforms ...

Five years ago, former Drexel University art student Matt Hand had all but written off painting as a career. He was living in New York, ostensibly developing skills as a graphic designer but in ...

In prior research, we found the way guppy life histories evolve in response to living in environments with a high or low risk of predation is consistent with life-history theory that assumes no ...

Since the discovery of the chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) phenomenon in double-stranded DNA, where spin electrons can be extracted and utilized by chiral compounds with a preferred spin ...