Evolutionary biology is a subdiscipline of the biological sciences concerned with the origin of life and the diversification and adaptation of life forms over time.

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s School of Life Sciences Professor Robert Thomson has been named the next editor-in-chief of Systematic Biology, the leading journal in the field of systematics and one ...

A new study by plant biologists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, challenges a longstanding idea that stems from the large number of flowers in the mountains of Central and South America ...

A new study recasts placental implantation as “coopetition,” showing how maternal and fetal cells both resist and enable invasion, with clues to pregnancy health. A series of rodent experiments showed ...

Why do some groups of organisms contain thousands of species while others have only a handful? Evolutionary biologists have spent decades trying to answer this question using mathematical models that ...

What appears to be a cozy bedtime for a baby monkey is actually a living experiment in evolutionary biology. The ritualized ...

A new Yale study identifies a distinct species of eyeless cavefish, a discovery that challenges long-held conventional wisdom that caves and other subterranean ecosystems are evolutionary dead ends.

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2012 was a hallmark year for scientific progress in understanding the evolutionary biology behind altruism, compassion and the importance of community. Neuroscientists have made huge progress in ...

Lurking in the vast expanse of the ocean and buried deep in the Siberian permafrost, there are giants—not blue whales and mammoths, but giant viruses. Simple adaptations that allow mangroves to ...