A black howler monkey chorus

Calls vs. balls: monkeys with more impressive roars produce less sperm

22 October 2015

Evolutionary ‘trade-off’ between size of throat and testes discovered in howler monkeys furthers Darwin’s theory of sexual selection and corresponds to mating systems: males with larger throats but smaller testes often have exclusive access to females, while those with larger testes share mates.    

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Comparison of embryos of fish, salamander, turtle, chick, pig, cow, rabbit and human embryos at three different stages of development.

Haeckel’s embryos: the images that would not go away

06 July 2015

A new book tells, for the first time in full, the extraordinary story of drawings of embryos initially published in 1868. ̽»¨Ö±²¥artist was accused of fraud – but, copied and recopied, his images gained iconic status as evidence of evolution.

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Original manuscript of Fauna Cantabrigiensis

̽»¨Ö±²¥remarkable notebook of a 19th-century naturalist

09 January 2013

A notebook recording the fauna of Cambridgeshire observed and collected by the Reverend Leonard Jenyns between 1820 and 1849 has been published in full for the first time. A significant naturalist in his own right, Jenyns turned down the offer of a place on HMS Beagle, recommending instead a younger colleague, Charles Darwin.

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Robert Asher

Can a scientist be religious?

11 March 2012

̽»¨Ö±²¥relationship between science and religion has had its rocky moments. But Dr Robert Asher, author of the newly published book 'Evolution and Belief: Confessions of a Religious Paleontologist', argues that the two sides can find common ground.

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