From back injuries to difficult childbirth, here are six downsides of being human that you can blame on evolution.We have ...

If the job listing calls for an unusual cluster of skillsets, it's because Sargent, who holds a doctorate in ecology and ...

Oct. 10, 2024 — Biologists have curated the red milkweed beetle's genome and its arsenal of genes related to plant-feeding and other biological traits. They sequenced and assembled the entire ...

A surprise discovery in a remote Australian desert region has given us new clues into the evolution of complex animal life, ...

Scientists from the UAB and Iowa State University have generated the genome assemblies of two hidden-neck turtles. The ...

Javier Ortega-Hernández, a Harvard Organismic and Evolutionary Biology professor and one of the study’s authors, said the ...

Evolutionary biology is a subdiscipline of the biological sciences concerned with the origin of life and the diversification and adaptation of life forms over time. Stochastic or genetic effects ...

Harvard’s Human Evolutionary Biology department is holding focus groups to seek student feedback on potential name options.

The discovery of a gut-to-brain regulation pathway in flies calls for additional consideration on how certain medications can ...

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Evolution - both the fact that it occurred and the theory describing the mechanisms by which it occurred - is an intrinsic and central component in modern biology. Theodosius Dobzhansky captures this ...

One of Europe’s most common birds, the great tit, show an amazing adaptability to human-made habitats. There seem no limits for this species when it comes inventing new ways of acquiring food ...