Hand-coloured steel engraving from Dr Joseph Nicolas Masse's Pocket Anatomy of the Human Body, first published in 1848. © Florilegius/The Trustees of the Natural ...

Scientists have long agreed that early humans mated with Neanderthals, but a pair of recent studies have shed light on when exactly this DNA mixing occurred. Such a revelation could help geneticists ...

Specialisms: • Biology ... of London for his thesis on blowfly feeding behaviour. Following seven years of work on tsetse flies in Africa, mainly in the Sudan and Zimbabwe, Martin returned to the UK.

Scientists at the Natural History Museum (NHM), London, have discovered that a long-overlooked moth specimen in the Museum's collection was in fact collected by explorer and naturalist ...