Evolution & Behaviour

How humans gave acne to the grapevine

Evolution follows many routes. Here is how the acne-causing bacteria adapted and evolved on a particular host...grapevine!

The lingering effects of parental care and its role in evolutionary change

Chimpanzees Trust Their Friends

Lab-life: the afternoon siesta of the fruit fly

Living without mitochondria: the downfall of one textbook truth

The Dark Side of Love

Fancy footwork: Darwin’s pigeons and the evolution of foot feathers

Amoebas trap bacteria using nets of DNA: the same mechanism as human immune cells

Symbiogenesis: how algae and bacteria shaped new genes together

Human gut parasite has a sinister use for its stolen genes