New research overturns decades of assumptions about how – and where – our lineage began.
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7 distinct types of silk allow different spider species to build webs with various jobs – including to catch prey, tether themselves and protect their eggs.
A secret under-layer explains why songbirds’ colourful feathers look so damn good.
Australian goannas adapted remarkably well to harsh climates. Scientists looking for hidden bone structures in lizards may be a step closer to learning why.
Fundamentalists don’t necessarily examine evolution and then reject it; they tend to start with the conclusion that it must be false and work backwards.
Chimpanzees’ turn-taking shows skills that may have supported the evolution of human conversation.
Humans change the urban landscape with religious, cultural and political activities, which in turn can influence the evolution of urban animals and plants.
Learners understood human evolution better after interactive workshops at a museum.
How someone speaks should be a lot less important than what is said. But that isn’t always the case.
The answer confirms scientists’ suspicion that when our planet’s climate crosses certain ‘tipping points’, truly catastrophic ecological collapse can follow.
Why human testicles are so different to chimpanzees’ and gorillas’.
Pop culture about the ‘trial of the century’ reflected broader cultural rifts.
Rather than a clever survival tactic, tonic immobility might just be ‘evolutionary baggage’.
These foods make up one-third of kids’ daily energy intake.
A space physicist has suggested that a reversal of the Earth’s magnetic poles may have wiped out the Neanderthals.
A new study proves for the first time that the ‘two-thirds scaling law’ applies to large animals as well as small ones, offering key lessons for conversation.
The monotreme sex gene may have been found after decades of searching – and it’s not what anyone expected.
Can a new database of 3D bone scans help solve the mystery of the elusive ngudlukanta?
Even though there are 8 billion people on Earth today, a catastrophe could send that number much lower within a few decades.
We may have complex brains but evolution hasn’t dealt us the best hand when it comes to genetics.
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Scientia Professor of Evolution, UNSW
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Emeritus Strategic Professor in Palaeontology, Flinders University
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Senior Research Scientist, South Australian Museum; Flinders University
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Honorary Associate Professor, UNSW
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Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology at the Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath
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Senior Lecturer in Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Life Sciences at the University of Bath, University of Bath
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Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, Monash University
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Associate professor in Vertebrate Palaeontology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Principal Lecturer in Wildlife Conservation, Nottingham Trent University
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Research Associate in the College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University
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Jenny Graves is a Friend of The Conversation.
Distinguished Professor of Genetics and Vice Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University
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Adjunct Research Associate, Monash University
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Mark Elgar is a Friend of The Conversation.
Emeritus Professor of Evolutionary and Behavioural Ecology, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University
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Professor of Earth System Science, UCL