Chunks of flipped DNA appear to accelerate evolution in fish. This discovery could reshape our understanding of how ...

Credit: Molecular Biology and Evolution (2023). DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msad224 ... "The inversion alleles are recessive lethal, most likely because the inversion breaks an essential gene.

A new study unexpectedly reveals that cells thrive on chaos. It may have fewer than many of the other sciences, but biology does have two dozen or so “rules”—broad generalizations about the behavior ...

Evolutionary fuel: Researchers study maintenance of an ancient chromosomal inversion The complexity of evolutionary processes affecting an inversion in stick insects provides resilience against ...

In evolutionary biology, convergent evolution is the process whereby organisms not closely related (not monophyletic), independently evolve similar traits as a result of having to adapt to similar ...

A new study by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology (MPI-EB) sheds fresh light on one of the most debated concepts in biology: evolvability. The work provides the first ...

In fact, various aspects of evolutionary biology may seem counterintuitive and could even be seen as a reason to reject evolution as a whole. In fact, they strengthen our understanding rather than ...

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology courses prepare students with a wide breadth of skills. Students in EBIO are well-positioned to pursue graduate school (biology, medical, dental, law), and careers in ...

Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences has officially voted to change the name of the Human Evolutionary Biology concentration during a meeting on April 1. Effective as of July 1, 2025 — when the ...