Focus: Investigating the evolution and development of vertebrate teeth and the postcranial skeleton This research focuses on the evolution and development of vertebrate teeth and the postcranial ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. European scientists have started work on a project to create simple forms of life from scratch in the lab, ...

Sand dollars are flattened, disc-shaped sea urchins that live in high-energy coastal environments across the globe. Why they evolved this atypical morphology remains a mystery. This project aims to ...

In 1943, a physicist and a biologist published a paper that confirmed one of the central pillars of Darwin's theory of evolution. The paper, by Max Delbrück of Vanderbilt University and Salvador Luria ...

There is an acute need for new medicines for the treatment of chronic widespread high-penetrance diseases in the western world. In spite of the increasing cost of drug development (€1.2 billion is the ...

Aware of these potential conflicts, many teachers cover the topic incompletely or avoid it entirely. For those who do teach it, evidence suggests that the majority does not view evolution as a ...