Global carbon budgets attribute an incomplete role to cultivated plants due to the exclusion of annual crops, since they are ...

For decades, ever since biologists recognized the potential environmental harms from climate change, they have worried that ...

Fifty years ago, Richard Dawkins shared an irresistible scientific metaphor with the world that modernised and democratised ...

My colleague and I have published a new study of cactus flowers which may help explain the conundrum. For more than a century ...

Humans really do rule the world. We took over fast and far, more than any other wild vertebrates. We inhabit nearly every ...

A dominant “Hulk” lizard morph is wiping out other color variants, demonstrating how fast evolutionary balance can collapse.

Most people know only two things about the appendix: You don’t need it – and if it bursts, you need surgery fast. That basic ...

A new study shows evidence of “evolutionary rescue”—a kind of rapid evolution in which organisms genetically adapt to severe ...

Drug policy and microbiology might seem like completely different worlds. But both are shaped by the same evolutionary ...

Paintings from ancient Egypt show the harvesting of grapes and the making of wine. Mesopotamian murals illustrate elites rai ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...