Darwin wasn't the only scientist who thought females couldn't be promiscuous. Angus John Bateman had very similar ideas.

Over half of our genomes consists of thousands of remnants of ancient viral DNA, known as transposable elements, which are widespread across the tree of life. Once dismissed as the 'dark side' of the ...

Most (if not all) of these adaptations are down to evolution, so perhaps it’s not so shocking that Charles Darwin was able to ...