“Polar Bear”, artist unknown, ca. 1870s — Library of Congress Musings upon the whys and wherefores of polar...
Evolution
Charles Darwin / Public Domain Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 03.12.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief Themes and...
Cover of the Astonishing Hypothesis by Francis Crick, 1994 By Lalita Kaplish / 09.14.2016 Wed Editor Wellcome...
Electron microscope images of marine bacteria infected with the non-tailed viruses studied in this research. The bacterial...
Children at a school in Antananarivo, Madagascar, during a plague outbreak, Oct. 3, 2017. AP Photo/Alexander Joe By...
Photo Public Domain By Dr. James P. Higham / 02.06.2018 Associate Professor of Anthropology New York University...
Neanderthal art. P. Saura By Dr. Chris Standish (left) and Dr. Alistair Pike (right) / 02.22.2018 Standish:...
Fossilized teeth from a modern human who lived in Israel close to 200,000 years ago. Israel Hershkovitz, Tel...
James Crichton-Browne, A woman with pursed lips, West Riding Lunatic Asylum, c. 1869 – Wellcome Library Stassa Edwards explores...
Courtesy Doug Boyer/Morphosource By Dr. Douglas Martin Boyer / 02.25.2016 Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology Duke University ‘Seeing...
A neanderthal skull, left hand side of one of Boule’s stereographs included in his L’Homme de La Chapelle (1911)...
Henry Nicholls talks to Jane Goodall about her remarkable career studying chimpanzee behaviour, her animal welfare activism, and accusations of plagiarism in...
Dr. Michael Tomasello By Dr. Nicolas Langlitz (left), Stephanie Schiavenato (right), and Esther Rottenburg (no photo)...
The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in NY circa 2000. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, the free media...
Author Tom Iliffe leads scientists on a cave dive. Jill Heinerth , CC BY-ND By Dr. Thomas M. Iliffe /...
British scientist Charles Darwin. Darwin’s scientific discoveries concerning evolution had an immediate impact on the scientific community....
Photo courtesy of PREDICT/Mike Cranfield Two ambitious projects aim to understand when and how the next human...
Analyzing the genetics of ancient humans means changing ideas about our evolution. By Gaia Vince / 03.07.2017...
Zooarchaeologist E. Grace Veatch investigates rat remains near the Liang Bua Cave on the Indonesian island of...
Tipping the balance of behavior: Social neurons and asocial neurons / Image by ZEISS Microscopy (Creative Commons) In Behave,...
Alexander Kellner (Museu Nacional/UFRJ) By Dr. Elizabeth Martin-Silverstone / 11.30.2017 Postgraduate Research Assistant in Palaeontology University of...
Detail from a photograph taken by Mr Sims of Wallace when he was 30 years old, in...
By John McLaughlin / 07.02.2015 PhD Candidate in Developmental Biology Hunter College City University of New York...
Washington University researchers were part of a team that studied findings from the Ordovician Period that produced...
The Lena River Delta in Siberia/LandSat NASA By Dr. John Hawks / 02.08.2016 Professor of Anthropology University...
Chimpanzees use alarm calls to inform each other of danger. / Ronald Woan, Flickr Nonhuman primates clearly...
Early humans seem to have recognised the dangers of inbreeding at least 34,000 years ago, and developed surprisingly sophisticated...
The unexpected ability of an RNA polymerase ribozyme to copy RNA into DNA has ramifications for understanding...
Afghan refugee Maimuna, photographed in Kabul in 2016. Photo by Hedayatullah Amid/Epa/REX By Wendy Orent / 11.08.2017 Anthropologist...
By Neil Schoenherr / 11.01.2017 Senior News Director, Law and Social Network Washington University, St. Louis Malnutrition...