Biologists are closing in on a puzzle that seems to turn classic evolutionary logic inside out, yet may be so common that it ...

It may have fewer than many of the other sciences, but biology does have two dozen or so “rules”—broad generalizations about ...

A reduced genome in an island species raises evolutionary questions.

Discover the nature, dynamics, and principles of ecological and evolutionary systems. Solve problems affecting the natural world and improve the future of ecological systems and the humans who depend ...

Researchers have reconstructed the evolutionary relationship between a 1.9 million-year-old extinct, giant primate and the living orangutan using the oldest genetic material ever recovered from a ...

“Expression tells us what cells do, but regulatory DNA tells us where they come from, how they develop, and which germ layer ...

The ability to make predictions about pathogenicity from evolutionary data is one of the eye-catching aspects of the study, opening the possibility that "in the future, we'll go to clinician and these ...

Deeply rooted in biology, our sense of what is physically appealing, and what is not, evolved over thousands of generations of human history. Although the concept of beauty may seem subjective—the eye ...

Walk into consciousness labs, and you will mostly find studies on humans relying on verbal reports. This evidence is then ...