Evolution

Chris Pires of the Bond Life Sciences Center at the University of Missouri is tracking an evolutionary battle between caterpillars and plants that's made our wasabi, mustard and horseradish even… Audio

Curator of Ornithology at Harvard University, who will visit New Zealand in August as an Allan Wilson Centre guest speaker for a series of public talks, Bird Evolution: From Dinosaurs to DNA. Audio

How did life begin? That's 'The Vital Question' biochemist Nick Lane poses in his new book. Audio

Professor of Natural History at the University of Manchester and Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre of Ancient Life Phil Manning, who is speaking about the mummified remains of a… Audio

The British science writer David Bainbridge turns his attention to the origins of female body shape in his new book 'Curvology'. Audio

Massey University zoologist Anne Wignall explains how web-building spiders use vibrations to communicate and to make sense of their world. Audio

A team of scientists have delved into psychology, evolutionary biology and neuroscience to try to answer that question of why humans fall in love. Audio

Mapping the genome of New Zealand's tuatara and Australia's platypus is key to understanding the evolution of all vertebrates Audio

A world-renowned dinosaur expert discusses the 21st century's fresh discoveries about the evolution of Tyrannosaurus rex from a small fuzzy carnivore to the largest and last of the Tyrannosaur… Audio

Research Leader at Landcare Research, Associate Professor at the University of Auckland, and a Principal Investigator at the Allan Wilson Centre, who was one of over 100 researchers from 16 countries… Audio

Senior research fellow at the Liggins Institute, whose work at Gravida, an inter-institutional, inter-disciplinary virtual research network involves new discoveries about cellular organisation. Audio

This weeks marks the start of the Antarctic science season and of the 2014 New Zealand IceFest in Christchurch. Audio

A preview of the exhibition at Te Papa, which explores 100 million years of evolution of the tyrannosaur family. Audio

A new science-based natural history book looks at the evolution, behaviour and ecology of an eclectic selection of New Zealand plants and animals, from stick insects to kahikatea
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In 'The Story of the Human Body' Harvard evolutionary biologist Daniel Lieberman writes a book about how the human body has evolved over millions of years. Audio