Introduction / Janet Browne -- The fetus, the fish heart and the fruit fly : a reflection on Darwin's chapter 1. The evidence of the descent of man from some lower form / Alice Roberts -- Remarkable, ...

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A recently published meta-analysis in the journal PLOS One found that women have historically been hunters. The longstanding myth of hunters versus gatherers, that only men take down large game while ...

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ON MONDAY, September 5, 1831, Robert FitzRoy was exactly twenty-six years and two months old. Young as he was, he had been in His Majesty’s Navy for twelve years, and before that in the Royal Naval ...

Charles is in Edinburgh, Scotland, ostensibly to study medicine. This is an age of heroic surgery, before anesthetics. Brutal operations are performed quickly, with screaming patients strapped to ...