Evolution and paleontology

• Biodiversity: Biodiversity's bright spot

  While species losses mount worldwide, conservationists in Brazil have made great strides towards saving the golden lion tamarin and its forest habitat from destruction. Gene Russo reports.

  18 November 2009

• Biodiversity: On the origin of bar codes - Premium content

  Genetic sequences in a cell's mitochondria can be used to accurately determine species. Could this be because they are responsible for creating what they identify? Nick Lane investigates.

  18 November 2009

• Darwin's finches tracked to reveal evolution in action - Premium content

  A new species of finch may have arisen in the Galapagos.

  16 November 2009

• How the sponge stays slim - Premium content

  One species' rapid cell shedding explains its huge carbon-catching capacity.

  16 November 2009

• Biologists turn against worm - Premium content

  Researchers seek out alternative model organisms to C. elegans.

  12 November 2009

• Oldest American artefact unearthed - Premium content

  Oregon caves yield evidence of continent's first inhabitants.

  5 November 2009

• 10,000 genomes to come - Premium content

  Vertebrates in line for massive sequencing project.

  4 November 2009

• Conservation biology: Reflecting the past

  Unsatisfied with merely halting environmental destruction, some conservationists are trying to reconstruct ecosystems of the past. Emma Marris travels back in time with the rewilders.

  4 November 2009

• Fossil primate challenges Ida's place - Premium content

  Controversial German specimen is related to lemurs, not humans, analysis of an Egyptian find suggests.

  21 October 2009

• Darwin's geological mystery solved - Premium content

  Origin of odd South American boulders may have defeated the Origin's author.

  20 October 2009