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A new alternative for those questioning Darwinian evolution? Research suggests evolution itself is intelligent.
Science fiction has long warned of technology taking over the world. We’re increasingly connected to a digital world that’s growing, and more automated. So what if it starts to evolve?
Researchers have found the first evidence that dinosaurs grew unusual features like crests and horns as a way of attracting a mate.
Charles Darwin visited Australia 180 years ago, and while here, he had a revelation that helped spark his insight into evolution by natural selection.
Robots that can reproduce could improve their design in ways we wouldn’t think of but still within our control.
You might be surprised to hear that virgin births are possible - just not in humans. By the reason why remains an evolutionary mystery.
A new study is rewriting our understanding of archaic humans and how they may have interacted with early humans.
Evolution doesn’t always take millions of years – sometimes it is very rapid indeed.
We are only just starting to understand the linguistic tools that get stuff done, move us to tears, bore us to death, or make us dizzy with delight.
Researchers want your canine’s DNA to help unravel the connections between genes and behavior – for dogs and human beings.
Biologists, along with most of the internet, have been puzzled as to why peacock spiders have such flamboyant courtship displays. So we decided to find out.
Despite science refuting the existence of different human races, people have used “race” throughout history to divide and denigrate certain people while promoting their claims of superiority.
The way our body’s immune system responds to allergens is very similar to the way it responds to parasitic worm infections – and some scientists have a theory for why.
It’s an amazing evolution story happening in our backyards and forests – should this wily canid be called the eastern coyote a ‘coywolf’?
A fall in vital trace elements in our oceans could be one of the driving forces behind a number of mass extinction events during Earth’s history.
Is a woman’s longing for a child evolution at work, or social conditioning? And what about those who don’t want kids? Are they defying nature? Probably not, as almost everyone wants sex.
Social organisation plays a key role in the wide variation seen in the size of male howler monkey calls and the size of their testes.
With humans providing lots of easy leftover food, wolves had a great incentive to ‘self-domesticate’.
Evolution also does not claim humans evolved from primates. Neither does it say non-human primates, including monkeys, baboons, chimpanzees and gorillas, will evolve into humans with time.
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Strategic Professor in Palaeontology, Flinders University
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Scientia Professor of Evolutionary Ecology; Academic Lead of UNSW's Grand Challenges Program, UNSW Sydney
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Professor in Evolutionary Biology (jointly appointed with South Australian Museum), Flinders University
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Honorary Associate Professor, UNSW Sydney
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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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Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology at the Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath
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Distinguished Professor of Genetics and Vice Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University
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Principal Lecturer in Wildlife Conservation, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor of Evolutionary Biology, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Natural Sciences, UCL
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Evolutionary Ecology, Griffith University
