A bee the size of a human thumb was first described in Victorian times, but hadn’t been seen since 1981. That is, until four biologists teamed up on a trek to Indonesia’s North Molucca islands.
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More than a thousand local people helped Alfred Russel Wallace in his eight year voyage collecting specimens of animals in the Malay archipelago.
An evolutionary biologist visits the remote jungle mountaintop where a little-known naturalist wrote his insightful paper about the mechanisms of evolution that spurred on a rivalrous Charles Darwin.
Rivers are natural boundaries for evolving populations. But scientists don’t agree whether they create new species or just help maintain them. Research using birds’ molecular clocks provides some answers.
A theory is not meant to be a final statement of how things are, but just the latest stage of ongoing research and new discoveries.
The central islands of Indonesia, also known as Wallacea, is a place of wonder, a living laboratory for the study of evolution.
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Paul Braterman adalah Sahabat The Conversation.Hon. Research Fellow; Professor Emeritus in Chemistry, University of Glasgow
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Historian of science, National University of Singapore
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Professor of Conservation Biology, Universitas Indonesia
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Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Professor of Zoology, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil and Visiting Scholar, Harvard University
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Honorary Professor, University of Sydney
