... nevertheless, as I never tire of pointing out to my students in Cambridge, chimpanzees do not play the piano, drink dry martinis, or erect temples to glorify the Creator.

If one compares the sequence of amino acids that go to form the protein haemoglobin, it becomes apparent that humans and chimps are identical and do not differ…

The underlying reason for convergence seems to be that all organisms are under constant scrutiny of natural selection and are also subject to the constraints o…

The fact that we arrived here via an immensely long string of species that originated in something like Pikaia rather than some other crepuscular blob is a won…