Resident and naturalist Ian Hutton has taken a keen interest in the study and has been working with the project team doing whatever jobs needed to be done on island.

Yet his original theory has encompassed ... new book by Adrian Desmond and James Moore, Darwin's Sacred Cause, concludes that Darwin's interest in evolution can be traced to his, and his family ...

The more species of Homo there were, the higher the rate of speciation. So when those niches got filled, something drove even more species to emerge. This is almost unparalleled in evolutionary ...

Thousands of fossils from the La Brea tar pits in California show no signs of mammals and birds evolving in response to ...

A sweeping cosmic census from the James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled nearly 1,700 galaxy groups—marking the deepest and ...

The Chicago Archaeopteryx provides rare 3D insights into skull evolution, soft tissue structure, and the first evidence of ...

Life is thought to have begun when RNA began replicating itself, and researchers have got close to achieving this in the lab ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. The James Hutton Institute has announced the appointment of Dr Ian Archer as its new commercial director. Dr Archer brings a wealth of ...

Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to ...

Chinese researchers recently uncovered molecular evidence supporting Lamarckism—a long-debated theory from the early 19th ...

Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to survive hundreds of years by adjusting its virulence and the length of time ...