Author Rebecca Coffey chats about wasp facial recognition genes, how yeast epigenetics explain the Dutch Hunger Winter and a dinner party tale of spider cannibalism.
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Darwin's Finches
The iconic finches collected from the Galapagos Islands by Charles Darwin are widely thought to be the inspiration for his theory of evolution by natural selection. But while it’s a nice story, it’s not quite true…
From Darwin to DNA - redrawing the tree of life
Flip open any biology textbook and you’ll see a typical ‘tree of life’ showing the relationships between species. But where did these iconic representations come from? And how do scientists decide what makes a species anyway?