Can evolution explain acts of kindness, and morality? We arranged a debate between a sceptical Tom Stoppard and the evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson. Stuart Jeffries acted as referee Tom ...

Take a historical journey through the evolution of the camera & portrait, looking at essential milestones in photographic history along the way.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – ...

The Pith: In this post I review a paper which covers the evolutionary dimension of human childbirth. Specifically, the traits and tendencies peculiar to our species, the genes which may underpin those ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

Darwin's dilemma over the Big Bang of evolution explained by scientists (wiki commons) Creative Commons Darwin's dilemma, in which the sudden appearance of a host of modern animal groups 520 million ...