Is evolution about chance or fate? Well, it depends
18 October 2017
Jonathan Losos's book Improbable Destinies tackles a controversy in biology - and finds that humans aren't all that different from the platypus
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Gene study shows human skin tone has varied for 900,000 years
12 October 2017
An analysis of genetic variation and skin pigmentation suggests that some particularly dark skin tones evolved relatively recently from paler genetic variants
Blind cave fish lost eyes by unexpected evolutionary process
12 October 2017
The discovery that a cavefish might have lost its sight because key eye genes were switched off via epigenetics, rather than mutation, will fuel an evolutionary debate
