Shane Campbell-Staton is professor of evolutionary biology at Princeton University. He's also the host of the PBS show, Human ...

For more than a century, biologists assumed that the bony plates embedded in the skin of lizards – like natural chain mail – ...

A reduced genome in an island species raises evolutionary questions.

Evolutionary biology is the study of how life diversifies and adapts over time through a range of processes including mutation, genetic drift, gene flow, and natural selection. From its classical ...

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 ...

The study of Astyanax mexicanus, encompassing both its cave-adapted and surface-dwelling forms, has emerged as a model for understanding evolutionary adaptation to extreme environments. Researchers ...

A new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep's core functions originated hundreds of millions of years ago in ...

A new study by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology (MPI-EB) sheds fresh light on one of the most debated concepts in biology: evolvability. The work provides the first ...

This lizard’s physiology rewrites what we thought reptiles were capable of. Here’s the truth behind its notorious reputation, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andréa Morris reports on emergent intelligence in diverse systems. “Where are all the genetic cures?” asks Denis Noble, a ...

Tiffany Taylor, professor of microbial ecology and evolution at the University of Bath in the U.K., recommends the books that shaped her career and her outlook on life. When you purchase through links ...