The human body is full of evolutionary compromises. The loss of the tail may be one of the clearest examples of how change ...

Research suggests that crying is not a sign of weakness, but one of the most sophisticated social technologies in the natural ...

For decades, many evolutionary biologists argued that natural selection acts primarily on individuals. In other words, that organisms are rewarded or penalized one at a time, and that the idea of ...

The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...

Evolutionary biology explores how living systems change over time through variation, inheritance and differential success. At its heart lies the concept of descent with modification: populations ...

The Cromwell Harbor Foundation named two early-career scholars of extraordinary promise as the inaugural recipients of their Chrysalis Prize, awarding each scholar $250,000 in unrestricted support, ...

A common element in “Star Trek” and other science fiction is their depiction of humanoid alien species. If life exists ...

The study blends math, statistics and biology to show that this long-held hyperbolic pattern is an anomaly because it doesn't account for the fact that all species on earth are defined as much by ...

Scientists have developed a theoretical model that uncovers the dual role of polyploidy -- organisms carrying extra genome copies -- in evolution. Their findings reveal that polyploidy can stabilize ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, finds that changes in animal development induced by climate shock persist ...

Scientists have long tried to decode every dream we have. Some say it’s survival training, others say it’s memory at work, ...

Evolutionary developmental biology, or evo‐devo, investigates how evolution shapes developmental processes to generate the diversity of life. It synthesises comparative embryology, genetics and ...