SIMON: Of course, the story of that egg becomes the title of your book ... the shock of that famine never left him. So I was raised by this person who had to survive on potato peels and coffee ...

Breslin told me that all apes, including humans, evolved to live the way wild apes still do: surviving cycles of feast and famine by gorging ... were collected in a book written by one of his ...

The word “notion” is an odd one. We’ve all had a notion — a conception or a belief about something. Those are pretty common.

The revelation is made in a recently published book about ... s response to the potato blight in Ireland and is reviled even to this day for refusing to help starving famine victims.

And I depict that in the book, you know, that people are sitting on a bench, and he thinks that they're skeletons, and then one of them moves. He said the shock of that famine never left him. So I was ...

In the mid-19th century, a microscopic invader swept across Ireland, leaving a trail of devastation in its wake. The potato ...

Researchers firmly point the finger at the South American Andes Mountains as the place where the Irish potato famine pathogen, Phtytophthora infestans, originated. Call it a mystery solved.

Scientists have discovered new evidence that the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine may have originated thousands of miles away. A study that examined the DNA of Phytophthora (P.) ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The Irish potato famine pathogen, Phytophthora infestans, is traced back to the Andes Mountains in South America, not Mexico. Genetic analysis reveals that P ...

A genetic investigation has finally tracked down the source of the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine, closing a case that has been up in the air for years. Researchers nailed down the Andes ...