New research is significantly revising a widely cited evolutionary model, the Inhibitory Cascade Mode (ICM). Benjamin Auerbach, professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the ...

Why do some species live for only weeks while others survive for centuries? Researchers at the Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI) in Jena have developed AEGIS, a freely ...

As biologists know, nature can take its sweet time explaining itself. Andrew Gillis, associate scientist at the Marine ...

Rudy Lerosey-Aubril A tiny claw in a 500-million-year-old fossil just rewrote the origin story of spiders. After a full da ...

The woman's body is often thought of as simply an average body. However, the more we learn about evolutionary biology, the ...

Mild aggression and lethal violence evolved separately, according to research across 100 primate species. The study ...

It had been a long day of teaching for Rudy Lerosey-Aubril. As a reward, he returned to cleaning an intriguing Cambrian arthropod fossil he had recently received for review. At first, the specimen ...

Study finds that the mass extinction caused by an asteroid about 66 million years ago led to critical changes in bird genomes that ultimately sparked the incredibly diversity living birds. Shortly ...

As the generations dragged on past the 27th iteration, the birth rate began to silently collapse. By the 57th generation, a mere 0.6 percent of the cloned embryos survived. The 58th generation ...

Independent researcher and author Axay Shah has announced the global release of his expansive manifesto, available as a 508-page Digital Edition and a 336-page Professional Print Edition. In Nature We ...

Why do humans have an appendix? New research is reshaping our understanding of this overlooked organ and its antiquated role ...

Former NASA astronaut Susan Kilrain and evolutionary biology professor Scott Solomon discuss what the astronauts bodies are ...