The “Frozen Evolution” Myth A popular assumption says medicine, technology, and home comforts have put humanity beyond the ...

A research team led by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) has revealed how the genome is reorganized in 3D during ...

In cancer research, one person's junk is increasingly becoming another person's treasure. Scientists have uncovered new ...

Why humans have a philtrum, the groove above your lip, explained by an evolutionary biologist — from embryonic face-building ...

Ever wonder why there are so many different versions of the same animal? From dinosaurs to Darwin to debating the current pace of ...

How will life on Earth and the ecosystems that support it adapt to climate change? Which species will go extinct – or evolve into something new? How will microbes develop further resistance to ...

Studying evolution by focusing solely on fossils would leave many questions unanswered, but evolutionary developmental biology (otherwise known as "evo-devo") helps fill in the gaps. Evo-devo ...

We humans have long viewed ourselves as the pinnacle of evolution. People label other species as “primitive” or “ancient” and use terms like “higher” and “lower” animals. This anthropocentric ...

"This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature"--Verso of title page. Outgrowth of and selected papers presented at the 19th Evolutionary Biology Meeting, held in September 2015, in Marseille, ...

What is life then, in the fundamental sense? Is it mere matter interacting with itself? Is it matter that organises and ...