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Evolutionary Biology

People line up outside a hospital.
Health & Medicine
There’s a way for modern medicine to cure diseases even when the treatments aren’t profitable
A computer model of a bacteriophage, which looks like a robot bug.
Health & Medicine
Are viruses the best weapon for fighting superbugs?
Archaea
Science
Charles Darwin’s ‘tree of life’ gets a new look
toy dinosaurs on a yellow background
Science
What makes some species more likely to go extinct?
Arts, Culture & Media
Spencer Wells
A drummer performs during a celebration of Sahrul, a festival of flowers, in Ranchi, India. Recently, the findings were released from a study that played snippets of songs from 86 small remote societies to online listeners in 60 countries to see if shares
Arts
New findings explore the universality of music, features that are recognizable across cultures
A modern human skull (left) and a Neanderthal skull (right) at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
Science
Neanderthals went extinct, but many of us still carry around fragments of their DNA
Dino snout
Science
Scientists roll back evolution by turning a chick’s beak into a ‘dino-snout’
Health & Medicine
California takes a cue from Europe and considers tough rules to limit the spread of antibiotic-resistant bugs
Health & Medicine
Should we be worried about antibiotic resistance?
How Insects Influence Plant Evolution
Arts, Culture & Media
Darwin the Abolitionist
Microbes and Evolution
Evolution in Action
E.O. Wilson, from Ant Colonies to Human Nature
Arts, Culture & Media
Evolution of a Natural Miracle
Evolution in Action
Environment
Bacteria Biofuel
The Living on Earth Almanac
Biodiversity in the Big Apple
Antique Sheep
Protecting Hybrids
Evolutionary Medicine: Rethinking the Origins of Disease
Antibiotic Resistance
Evolutionary Medicine: Rethinking the Origins of Disease
Antibiotic Resistance
Finches Change
Last Native Speaker
Emerging Science Note/Discovery & Extinction
Health Note/Antibiotic Resistance
Animal Antibiotics
Development & Education
Bacteria Biofuel
Environment
The Sixth Extinction
Environment
Survivor: Planet Earth
Environment
From survival of the fittest to survival of all: Is evolution over?
Arts, Culture & Media
Spore: a marriage of evolutionary biology and computer simulated games
Environment
Look at Charles Darwin’s legacy as the theory of evolution turns 150, A