My passion for earthworms and ecology led me to continuing Darwin’s experiments in his own ‘back garden’

Charles Darwin knew the evidence from fossils contradicted evolution. Researchers are still trying to work out the problem today.

The fossil record tells conflicting stories about what happened to flowering plants after the asteroid.

We may have become the most complex living creature in part by accident and replication of error.

Reef corals grow vigorously in nutrient poor water – new research has found out why.

The colonial era profoundly shaped natural history museums and collections. Herbaria, which are scientists’ main source of plant specimens from around the world, are no exception.

Researchers create synthetic species without biochemistry, find they operate according to Darwinian evolutionary principles.

There is more to evolution than the genes species inherit.

DNA analysis is beginning to reveal how wrong the long-accepted evolutionary tree is.

Darwin thought female animals were non-strategic and uniform, making similar decisions.