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
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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
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?
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
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
