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One reason for the likes of the anti-vaxxers movement is a misplaced faith in Mother Nature.
There is an urgent need to reconsider the importance of diversity. It is not a simple wealth. It is both a property of the living and an essential condition for its survival.
It can actually be very tricky to define a species, but in the 1900s, scientists found a pretty good way.
Nature doesn't always make the things we need so three Nobel Prize winners figured out how to fast-track evolution in the lab to create medicines, biofuels and industrial chemicals for modern life.
Was Darwin inspired by the tropical wildlife of his travels to discover natural selection? Actually, pigeons, worms and barnacles were far more prominent in his thinking.
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.
Harnessing the awe-inspiring living light and power of bioluminescent organisms could change the human world.
In this age of the pseudo-factual, its more important than ever to acquaint ourselves with the foundations of the scientific tradition, such as Darwin's Origin of Species.
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.
Humans have long been trying differentiate themselves from the rest of the biological world. Is it because we're superior, or just insecure?
The short answer is no. An individual of one species cannot, during its lifetime, turn into another species. But your question helps us think about life, evolution and what it means to be human.
The very existence of kindness and altruism seems to contradict Darwin’s theory of evolution. So how could kind behaviour have evolved?
Rather than castigate those who deny evolution, it is more useful to consider their arguments to help science explain it better
Logic, science and critical thinking are working miracles for non-believers.
Playing to the intelligent design mob, Mike Pence is simply spinning words in his war on evolutionary biology
Outlawing evolution in schools is based on creationist misconceptions – here's how to counter them
Thirty years after the Supreme Court ruled that creationism cannot be required in schools, 'creation science' is still taught in some schools. What are the implications for climate education?
As an intellectual history of the disciplines of paleontology and paleoanthropology, Kuljan’s book is especially adept at narrating the interwoven connections between science and power.
The theory that New Caledonia was a piece of land that separated from the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana was a seductive one. But then a cockroach rose up to challenge it.
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Lecturer in History of Medicine/Life Science, University of Melbourne
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Hon. Research Fellow; Professor Emeritus, University of Glasgow
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Adjunct professor, Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Charles Darwin University
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Lecturer in Science Education, Sussex School of Education and Social Work, University of Sussex
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Professor of Evolutionary Biology, University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin
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Science Communicator, University of Sydney
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Professor of Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University
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Honorary Professor, Australian National University
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Dean of Graduate Studies; Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Tourism and Regional Development, CQUniversity Australia
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Visiting Fellow, Pacific and Asian History, Australian National University
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Professor of Archaeology, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University
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