Did US Experts Just Resolve 'Darwin's Dilemma'?
Charles Darwin worried about a possible hole in his theory of evolution, but some American scientists may just have plugged it. For about a billion years after the dawn of life on Earth, organisms...
View ArticleDarwin's 'Strange Animals' Puzzle Solved
A humpless, snouted camel? Check. A rhino with the teeth of a rodent and head of a hippo? No problem, scientists say, after apparently figuring out, finally, where these mystery creatures sit on the...
View ArticleHere's the 'Most Important Academic Book' Ever Written
What does it take to be named the most important academic book ever written? Well, it helps if its publication "upended the way human beings think about where they came from, challenged millennia of...
View ArticleCharles Darwin's Finches Could Soon Be Extinct
Charles Darwin's finches of the Galapagos Islands—renowned as a poster child for speciation (that's "the process by which new species arise," explains Smithsonian )—may not be able to evolve fast...
View ArticleAnimal That Flummoxed Darwin Finds Its Genetic Home
An animal whose pedigree stumped even Charles Darwin has at long last found its place in the tree of life. A study released Tuesday in Nature Communications concludes that the Macrauchenia patachonica...
View ArticleGovernment Seized Shkreli's Nazi Code Machine
Martin Shkreli owes New York hundreds of thousands of dollars, and to get it back the state's tax office has been seizing and selling some of the most prized possessions of the so-called "pharma bro."...
View ArticleDarwin's Notebooks May Have Been Stolen
Two notebooks used to illustrate Charles Darwin's theory of evolution are missing and believed to have been stolen some 20 years ago. Cambridge University Library made the announcement Tuesday, saying...
View ArticleDarwin's Stolen Notebooks Turn Up in a Gift Bag
Charles Darwin’s notebooks, thought to have been stolen from Cambridge University's library nearly 22 years ago, have turned up in a bright pink gift bag with a note reading "Happy Easter." The package...
View ArticleDarwin's Origin Defense, With Signature, Goes Up for Bid
When Charles Darwin wrote a what-about defense of his theory of evolution in 1865, he made clear that he stood behind his work—he affixed his full signature to the document. A celebrity magazine that...
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