The cellular biology of reproduction is often depicted as an epic journey, in which millions of intrepid sperm fight to be the first to claim the ultimate prize: the chance to fertilize the egg, which ...

Pioneering AI-powered research on butterflies has probed the under-studied evolution of females and adds to a debate between Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. Pioneering AI-powered research on ...

Early in development, many animals pick a team — male or female — based on their genetics, and, with time, acquire the characteristics to match. New research from the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL ...

American essayist Cat Bohannon loves a bit of pop culture to contextualise her ideas. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution – her ambitious, funny, intelligent history of ...

Birdwing butterflies of the Troides haliphron species group, in which females (right) were observed to be more visibly diverse than males (left). Pioneering AI-powered research on butterflies has ...