Most animals can’t keep a beat despite what Darwin believed
3 April 2019
Humans turn out to have the strongest sense of rhythm of all animals, says a new book, which makes strong evolutionary connections between music and language
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A chimp's hug shows it's time to accept that animals have feelings too
3 April 2019
In Mama’s Last Hug, primatologist Frans de Waal argues that we can no longer deny that animals have feelings and we need to look closely at their inner lives
Human or hybrid? The big debate over what a species really is
23 January 2019
Humans once mated with Neanderthals so are we hybrids? How we see ourselves and the rest of nature is changing, raising the question of whether species even exist
Lost 'Darwinia' islands could be origin of species in the Galapagos
25 December 2018
Millions of years before the Galapagos existed, another island chain may have shaped the evolution of the unusual wildlife that later inspired Charles Darwin
The Wider Earth review – Darwin's Beagle days make a gripping play
7 November 2018
An unusual venue stages an intriguing play about Darwin's Beagle days as London's Natural History Museum turns theatrical–with superb puppets as exotic wildlife
Review: The Tangled Tree and Lamarck's Revenge are genetic misfits
24 October 2018
Two new books make big claims, but prove only that reports of the death of Darwinism have been greatly exaggerated
The epic hunt for the place on Earth where life started
13 June 2018
Darwin's warm little pond, the deep ocean and icy shores – all have been suggested as the birthplace of life. Now one location could have it all
'Radical’ new biography of Darwin is unreliable and inaccurate
21 August 2017
A. N. Wilson's error-strewn and tendentious portrayal of Charles Darwin as a "Victorian mythmaker" falls into old traps and digs new ones, finds John van Wyhe
We may have the evolution of beauty completely wrong
3 May 2017
Many male animals sport dazzling displays to attract a mate. But a new book says we may have misunderstood Darwin – and this is all about arbitrary aesthetics
