July 5 2021 was the 117th birthday of the great scientist Ernst Mayr (5 July 1904 to 3 February 2005). Ernst Mayr can be described among others as an evolutionary biologist, taxonomist, ornithologist, science educator and historian, and a leading ...

First-year biology students are “rapidly abandoning” beliefs in theistic involvement in human origins. That’s according to annual polling of university students on their views about evolution and creationism. Researchers asked UNSW Sydney biology students to circle one of the following: ...

I wake to the sound of raindrops tapping on the window of the tiny room in Pollock Halls of Residence. Situated on the edge of Holyrood Park near the foot of the dramatic little mountain, Arthur’s Seat, this should be ...

 Eleanor Bath, a science student at the University of NSW with a fascination for evolutionary biology, has been announced as the 2012 NSW Rhodes Scholar. She will travel to Oxford next year where she will undertake a DPhil in the ...