The Decline of the Y Chromosome
For the human race to continue surviving, at the most basic level, we need both male…
Evolution
What Is The Newest Animal? With Professor Angela Moles
In August 2023, Tuesday Daily presenter Lachlan A'Court posed a question to 2SER listeners: what is…
Monkey magic: how they adapted to become better communicators
A new study from the Australian National University shows that old world monkeys like baboons, macaques…
Are our ‘smartphone faces’ becoming more modern?
When you think of historical genre films, actors heavily featured in period dramas such as Keira…
Holy roadrunner, listeners! Animals Are Evolving Quicker Than Thought
Last week we chatted with Prof. Anthony Herries about the history of human evolution. Well, the…
Uncovering Our Ancestor’s Social Lives By Examining Gibbon and Siamang...
Recent research has shown that the structure of gibbon and siamang is influenced by the social…
Why can’t species adapt to climate change?
While temperatures have continued to rise since the industrial revolution, climate change has been seen impacting…
Well Crikey, Turns Out Crocodiles Used To Walked on Two Legs!
Imagine this. Giant crocodiles with two legs once roamed freely across the earth in what is…
Meet Your Oldest Ancestor
Is our oldest ancestor the chimpanzee? Or are we just descended from them? Whatever the case,…
How evolutionary scientists think that kindness can make the world a b...
A growing group of renegade scientities, lead by evolutionary biologist, David Sloan Wilson from Binghamton University,…
Provide And Protect?
Some women find themselves attracted to taller, more dominant men. Have you ever wondered why? We…
New Species of Early Human Discovered
For tens of thousands of years in a cave in the Philippines lay a tiny fragment…