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

One of biology’s big questions is how new species arise and how nature’s incredible diversity came to be. Cichlid fish from Lake Malawi in East Africa offer a clue.

Cod used to be giants. With their impressive size—over a meter in length and weighing up to 40 kilograms—and abundance, they, ...

University of Adelaide researchers discovered monotremes use a completely different sex determination system than other ...

Scopes trial, in which a Dayton, Tennessee, teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching biological evolution, ...

The emergence of eukaryotes as an evolutionary algorithmic phase transition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2025; 122 (13) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2422968122 ...

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.

Why study ecology, evolution and organismal biology at UMass Lowell? Our rapidly changing world requires experts trained in global biodiversity and its conservation. The EEOB Option emphasizes ...

Evolution is the process of heritable change in populations of organisms over multiple generations. Evolutionary biology is the study of this process, which can occur through mechanisms including ...

Over the past 500 million years, nearly all evolutionary changes in octopuses and squids occurred in rapid bursts during the emergence of new species, according to research from the University of ...

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 ...