The amazing diversity of flowers is a biological mystery that has long intrigued scientists. Dr Beverley Glover explains how new understanding of...
A groundbreaking new study, supported by The Bonita Trust*, that will look at Charles Darwin's impact on attitudes to gender and sexuality, has been...
Scientists in the Department of Veterinary Medicine are studying viruses as pathogens in host populations, endeavouring to understand the...
David Norman, Director of the Sedgwick Museum examines Darwin’s early years and his links with Cambridge.
Cambridge anthropologists are increasingly looking at human evolution not just as a path through the remote past, but also as a way to explore...
Since Darwin’s time, Amazonian butterflies have intrigued biologists as examples of evolution in action.
Collaboration between the University Herbarium and Microsoft Research Ltd has made a unique botanical collection available to a world-wide audience...
By adopting the principles of natural selection, engineers are using survival of the fittest to breed better design solutions.
How did a fragment of lava set in motion a journey to the Galapagos 170 years after Darwin’s epic voyage?
Through the Darwin Correspondence Project, a rich collection of letters held at Cambridge University Library is both transforming our understanding...
Professor Jennifer Clack’s research into one of the major events in the evolutionary history of life on Earth has been honoured by the National...
