evolution

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Six University scholars elected to British Academy

18 Jul 2008

Six Cambridge academics have been made Fellows of the British Academy in the latest round of elections to the prestigious organisation for scholars...

Cambridge astronomer identify the Galaxy’s youngest supernova remnant

19 May 2008

A Cambridge astronomer’s identification of the remnant of the most recent supernova in the Milky Way is set to fill in major gaps in our knowledge of...

Skull of one of the earliest known animals, Acanthostega gunnari found in Greenland, 1987

International award for evolution expert

01 May 2008

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...

Release of Darwin’s papers includes first draft of Theory of Evolution

17 Apr 2008

The first draft of Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution is among thousands of his private papers made accessible online for the very first time.

The thinking hominid

01 Feb 2008

The discovery in southern India of a well-preserved quarry dating from a million years ago is helping researchers to answer: how intelligent were our...

False colour image of the carbon monoxide gas in the Orion molecular cloud observed using HARP.

Hunting for protostars

01 Sep 2007

Looking deep inside the swirling dust clouds that make up stellar nurseries &ndash; the birth place of stars &ndash; can help unravel...

Monkey business

01 Jun 2007

Ground-breaking discoveries by two Cambridge researchers have placed monkey behaviour closer to humans than had previously been thought. Dr Antonio...