The primitive angiosperms in the South Pacific exhibit three modes of pollination. The flowers of Drimys are pollinated by a wide variety of Diptera. One species of thrips (Thysanoptera) pollinate the ...

A new study published in Science reveals that the neural mechanism behind our ability to move around is not as special as we might like We haven't evolved as much as we'd like to believe. Our genome ...

A 400 million-year-old fossil of a coelacanth fin, the first finding of its kind, fills a shrinking evolutionary gap between fins and limbs. The fossil shows that the ancestral pattern of lobed fins ...

How rudimentary movements evolve into sophisticated ones during development remains unclear. It is often assumed that the primitive patterns of neural control are suppressed during development, ...

Finger-prints of Twins.-A study of the fingerprints of twins has been made by Prof. H. H. Newman (Jour. Genet., vol. 23, No. 3). The material consisted of the prints of 100 pairs of same-sexed twins, ...

A 400 million-year-old fossil of a coelacanth fin, the first finding of its kind, fills a shrinking evolutionary gap between fins and limbs. University of Chicago scientists describe the finding in a ...