A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, finds that changes in animal development induced by climate shock persist ...

Goosebumps might be a common phenomenon we experience in our lives, as they were for our ancestors, but they might play an ...

Biologists are closing in on a puzzle that seems to turn classic evolutionary logic inside out, yet may be so common that it deserves to be called a new rule of life. Instead of always purging harmful ...

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 ...

The human ability to cook may seem ordinary, but it marks one of the most important evolutionary turning points in our ...

The evolution of eukaryotic cells represents one of the most pivotal transitions in the history of life, marked by the emergence of cellular compartmentalisation and increased complexity. Central to ...

Why does natural selection appear to happen slowly on long timescales and quickly on short ones? A multigenerational study of four lizard species addresses biology’s “paradox of stasis.” James Stroud ...

As AI systems get more sophisticated, they seem to be weirdly mirroring some biological traits. Stephen Wolfram — mathematician, computer scientist, and ...