Welcome to a great, straightforward guide to the tree of life
30 April 2025
Max Telford's new book, The Tree of Life, is a millennia-spanning exploration of the history – and future – of evolutionary relationships
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What the surprising lives of solitary animals reveal about us
9 April 2025
A new understanding of why some animals evolved to be loners, and the benefits that brings, shows that a social lifestyle isn’t necessarily superior
How humans evolved to think about risk may cost Earth dearly
29 January 2025
A provocative new book delves into the way humans – and elephants – evolved to manage risk. We might do better to think more like elephants
The extraordinary ways species control their own evolutionary fate
4 December 2024
Natural selection isn't just something that happens to organisms, their activities also play a role, giving some species – including humans – a supercharged ability to evolve
An engrossing history of teeth shows their complex role in evolution
14 August 2024
From birds and bats to horses and great apes, Bill Schutt's seriously fun history of teeth, Bite, explains their role in both shaping evolution and our understanding of it
Island of wild children: Would they learn to be human?
3 June 2015
100 babies. No adults. One island. Without language, culture or tools, what would they become and how would their own children evolve?
Flights of fancy: An enchanting history of ornithology
12 February 2014
The excellent Ten Thousand Birds takes us from the obsessive bird collectors of Darwin's time to the fully fledged scientists of today
Middle age: A triumph of human evolution
7 March 2012
Far from being over the hill, people in their fifth and sixth decades are skilled, experienced super-providers – and essential to our species's success
Personality tests reveal the flip side of comedy
16 March 2009
Climbing up on stage to tell jokes to a bunch of strangers may seem like the most extroverted of activities, but comedians have revealed a surprising shy side
Here be monsters
22 September 2000
The icons of the dinosaur age are about to be knocked off their pedestals. Graham Lawton goes in search of T. rex's successors
