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Wikipedia Why Do Zebras Have Stripes? Scientists Have The Answer -- The Guardian There have been many explanations for the zebra’s i...

An illustration of Neanderthals at the cave site of Trou Al'wesse in Belgium, clinging on as the climate deteriorated. Credit: Digital P...

Old big head: A 3D image replica of a 28,000-year-old skull found in France shows it was 20 per cent larger than ours From The Daily Mail: I...

Colin Blakemore believes the human brain became bigger through genetic accident and not evolution. Photograph: David Hartley / Rex Features ...

Revenge of the Nerds From The Telegraph: Intelligent men are less likely to cheat on their wives because of evolution, a new analysis of soc...

With colleague Tracey Lincoln, Gerald Joyce (picured) has created an artificial genetic system that can undergo self-sustained replication a...

From Philadelphia Inquirer: New DNA findings show that human genetic mutations are more recent, more rapid than once thought. Conventional w...

Scientists simulated the change from an ape-like hand to a human-like hand . From The BBC: Scientists may have solved the mystery of how hum...

A scanning probe microscope image of human chromosomes. From The Telegraph: The Y chromosome is evolving far faster than the rest of the hum...

New research suggests that certain adaptations that once benefited humans may now be helping such ailments persist in spite of -- or perhaps...

Image of what would be a "compound genome". Different molecules (in various colours) join the globule or corpuscle, which divides ...

The reefs are centres of evolution as well as biodiversity. From The BBC: Coral reefs give rise to many more new species than other tropical...

A sketched reconstruction if the Boskop skull done in 1918. Shaded areas depict recovered bone. Courtesy the American Museum of Natural Hist...

From The Telegraph: The reason women love to spend hours browsing in shops while men prefer to be in and out of the high street in minutes i...

Looking backward, evolutionary theory—popularized by Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, published in 1859—has traced humanity...

Charles Darwin Photo: PA From The Telegraph: An appeal has been launched to track down one of Charles Darwin's most important noteboo...

Could humans split into two species? Perhaps, if we engineer one or if a colony is isolated in outer space. Image credit: stockxpert From Li...

Weighing in at an average of 2.7 pounds (1,200 grams), the human brain packs a whopping 100 billion neurons. Every minute, about three soda-...

'No one has ever really known how the elephant got its trunk, or how the leopard got its spots. This project will lay the foundation for...

E. coli growing in a petri dish. (Credit: iStockphoto/Linde Stewart) From Science Daily: Science Daily (Nov. 3, 2009) — Researchers at the U...