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 ...

For decades, many evolutionary biologists argued that natural selection acts primarily on individuals. In other words, that organisms are rewarded or penalized one at a time, and that the idea of ...

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 ...

Fifty years ago, Richard Dawkins shared an irresistible scientific metaphor with the world that modernised and democratised ...

Evolutionary biology explores how living systems change over time through variation, inheritance and differential success. At its heart lies the concept of descent with modification: populations ...

Evolution rarely hits delete. Instead, it leaves behind living relics built for animals that no longer exist. Avocados are one of them.

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

The study of early vertebrates provides an essential window into the evolutionary processes that shaped modern biodiversity. Fossil discoveries spanning the Silurian to Devonian periods reveal a ...

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, ...

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 ...

In the intricate machinery of the inner ear, hearing begins with a protein that moves a few billionths of a meter up to ...