Darwin to understand the convergence of disparate scales of geological and human history. The event now known...
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By looking at drug addiction from an evolutionary perspective, we may understand its underlying significance and evaluate...
Inside Rome’s Colosseum visitors can view the chambers that once held animals and contenders below the arena...
Skull of a Homo sapiens (a.k.a. modern human) individual, on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural...
This hand was discovered in articulation and all bones are represented except for the pisiform. / Photo...
Reconstruction of ancient life and environments is an extremely challenging problem. By Dr. William Irvin Sellers Professor,...
Holding on in hurricane-force winds. Colin Donihue, Creative Commons In the wake of two hurricanes in the Turks and Caicos Islands, researchers document for...
Image: Chelsea Turner/MIT Study identifies neurons that fire at the beginning and end of a behavior as...
Image by Pablo Blasberg As daylight saving time looms, researcher sheds light on health effects of not...
Ammonite fossil / Photo by Becks, Wikimedia Commons Nineteenth-century England saw a major revolution in the scientific...
By Brad Bowman / 05.17.2018 Sosland Family Graduate Fellow in the History of Science Harvard University In...
San Diego Giant on display at side show In December of 1896, a group of anatomists and...
“The Ancient Wrasse”, a detail from the frontispiece to The Aquarium (1856, 2nd edition) — Biodiversity Library Bernd Brunner on...
Emily Anthes braves locusts, beetles, mealworms and more as she asks whether eating insects is the answer...
Patricia Fara traces the changing iconography of Joseph Banks, the English botanist who travelled on Captain Cook’s...
Detail from a print featured in the first part of Vincent’s Wondertooneel der Nature – Rijks Museum Bert van de...
Sunrise at noon in the Arctic. Little exposure to sun was a piece of the genetic puzzle. Bering...
A virus is essentially an information system (encoded in DNA or RNA) surrounded by a protective coat. Tom...
New research using ancient DNA finds that a population split after people first arrived in North America...
Lucy, born 3.2m years ago. Pat Sullivan/AP It should not be a surprise that East Africa was a...
3D virtual reconstruction of two-million-year-old ear. Rolf Quam, CC BY-ND Beyond the cool factor of figuring out hominin hearing capacities two...
Yeah, they messed with my genes. attawayjl Research shows that the genes of the modern horse were forged...
Behold the femur. Bence Viola, MPI EVA Radiocarbon-dated to around 45,000 years old. By Dr. Daniel Zadik / 10.24.2014 Postdoctoral Researcher...
A replica of a Homo naledi skull. GCIS/Flickr, CC BY-ND New evidence suggests that Homo naledi didn’t deliberately deposit their dead in a...
How did Yersinia pestis bacteria start to target the lungs and become so deadly? National Institute of Allergy and Infectious...
Teeth fossils with evidence of dental lesions from Australopithecus africanus. Ian Towle, Author provided Prehistoric humans and their predecessors may have had a very different...
TonelloPhotography/Shutterstock.com Each discipline tells us only part of the story. And so the truest picture of prehistory comes from...
Nisarg Desai observes wild chimps known as Sandi, Ferdinand and Siri in Tanzania. Michael Wilson, CC BY-ND Do chimpanzee talk to...
Drawn directly from the flesh. Public Domain Review/Flickr, CC BY-SA By Dr. Richard Gunderman / 12.31.2014 Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts,...
Portrait of Dr Samuel Latham Mitchill, artist unknown — Wikimedia Commons One of the early Republic’s great polymaths,...