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 – ...

It may have fewer than many of the other sciences, but biology does have two dozen or so “rules”—broad generalizations about ...

Biologists are closing in on a puzzle that seems to turn classic evolutionary logic inside out, yet may be so common that it ...

A new study conducted by the Institute for Biology Education has concluded that the way in which supporting knowledge of key evolutionary findings is taught in biology lessons influences the entire ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Assembly Theory is a way to understand how the complexity of life emerged through a mechanism of “self-assembly.” It could explain how life formed on Earth—or other planets—via the shortest path to ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...