proceedings of the royal society

Collectivistic cultures, which promote social harmony over individuality, protect people who are genetically predisposed to depression from experiencing the condition according to research published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B

Dinosaurs are known for their huge size, but a new species discovered in Colarado, USA, is notable for being tiny.

The miniature creature from the Jurassic is described in Proceedings of the Royal Society B this week.

Rooks are more advanced than chimps when it comes to understanding some compicated concepts, according to the latest online issue of Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

Female orangutans have evolved subtle strategies to select the father of their offspring, according to new research published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

(Brown University) In the most computationally intensive phylogenetic analysis to date, an international research team led by Brown University has found the first evolutionary branching for bilateral animals.

The researchers determined that the flatworm group Acoelomorpha is a product of the deepest split within the bilateral creatures -- multi-celled organisms that, like humans, have symmetrical body forms.

Results appear online in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

Cod are doomed to disappear from the North Sea because of climate change and not just as a result of over-fishing, researchers claim in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

The glyptodont, a two-ton dinosaur, had a tail with a “sweet spot” that it used to club rivals, according to new research in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

Scientists writing in Proceedings of the Royal Society B reveal just why it is that we swing our arms when we walk.

(Arizona State University) In a study released online on July 22 in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences, researchers at Arizona State University and Princeton University show that ants can accomplish a task more rationally than our -- multimodal, egg-headed, tool-using, bipedal, opposing-thumbed -- selves.

This is not the case of humans being "stupider" than ants.

Environmental change has caused British forests to be less diverse today than they were 70years ago, according to new research published today in the Journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.