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One hundred years ago the discovery of a skull in South Africa’s North West province altered our understanding of human evolution. The juvenile skull was dubbed the Taung Child by Raymond Dart, an anatomist at the University of the Witwatersrand, who first described it. In 1924 Dart could not say…

Painting of 98-year-old broadcaster, commissioned by Royal Society, goes on public display 2 July

Scientists still cannot agree on what is the most important factor in the evolution of the giraffe’s neck.

A new documentary explores how animal sexuality has evolved to be about much more than just reproduction

Everything in biology ultimately boils down to food and sex. To survive as an individual you need food. To survive as a species you need sex.

Like a mother breastfeeding a baby, plants use underground web of fungi to feed seedlings that cannot survive on their own

When Charles Darwin first encountered parasitoid wasps, he was horrified. In an 1860 letter to American botanist Asa Gray, he wrote: “I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars.”

Like Charles Darwin did in 1831, a group of scientists and environmentalists last year set sail from the English port of Plymouth, headed for the Galapagos islands off the coast of Ecuador.

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