Browsing: Amy Maxmen

The Cambrian explosion of animal life now seems more like a whimper.

As a rule, huge organizations move sluggishly, bogged down in democratic decision-making processes and bureaucratic policies. Ebola, on the other hand, moves fast. People become desperately sick and contagious within a few weeks of infection. By the time international agencies effectively responded to the ongoing Ebola outbreak, it had spiraled out of control in West […]

In Ethiopia, evolution is not a threat to people of faith.

Digging through the world’s oldest graveyard with African paleontologists.

In Ethiopia, paleontologists are pushing back the clock on humanity’s origins.

A new study shows that the comb jelly Pleurobrachia bachei evolved its complex features, including neurons and muscles, separately from animals like us.Leonid Moroz and Mat Citarella Our brains, perched atop a network of nerve cells that ascend the length of our bodies, are thought to have arisen once in an animal hundreds of millions […]

Ken Kraaijeveld unveils ancient secrets of seduction from the animal kingdom.

DNA studies topple the ladder of complexity.

DNA barcodes could keep restaurants honest.