The Climate Crisis: Which animals will survive?
Alexandra Lesayova writes about the threespine stickleback fish; a promising model organism with respect to gaining a better understanding of...
Tag: evolution
A jar of spices has a lot to hide and a lot to tell
Marie Poirot writes about the research at Australian National University studying the use of spices in cuisines all over the...
Did warm-bloodedness result from the Permian extinction?
As life became more fast-paced due to the evolution of erect species, endothermy may have provided an advantage, allowing animals...
Fear: from ancestral origins to modern thrill-seekers
Image credit: Benjamin Balazs via Pixabay Fear as an emotion is universal; whether it be the fear of the dark,...
Is this it for Human Evolution?
Image Credit: Vector Open Stock via Flickr Humankind, in all our arrogance, have always told ourselves that we were different...
The ABCs of Life on Earth
Image credit: Pixabay Researchers at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Edinburgh,...
An Alien in Our Sea: A look at the intelligence of an octopus
Image credit: Elisabetta Lando In 2016, one of my favourite sci-fi films Arrival was released, and – mild spoiler alert...
A good deal gone bad: how evolving more intricate brains made us vulnerable to autism spectrum disorders
Image credit: Meo via Pexels.com What if the evolutionary changes which made us human also laid the foundation for some...
PTSD: The evolutionary advantage
PTSD via Jesper Sehested A third of people who survive traumatic events experience post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). PTSD survivors involuntarily...
