Evolution is biology's powerful method of engineering. It works by generating many variants of DNA, RNA, and proteins inside ...

Researchers have studied gene expression dynamics during metamorphosis in two species of flies. Published in the Genome Biology and Evolution, the study aims to identify patterns of changes in gene ...

Joseph L. Graves Jr. offers a memoir and more in ‘A Voice in the Wilderness’ It’s both good and bad that the first Black American to earn a Ph.D. in evolutionary biology is not a long-ago hidden ...

"Our results emphasize the role of manipulative abilities in brain evolution and reveal how neural and bodily adaptations are interconnected in primate evolution," the researchers conclude in the ...

The program in Evolutionary Biology is designed to provide students with knowledge of macro- and micro-evolutionary processes underlying the evolution and diversification of life on Earth and an ...

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, ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: It may have fewer than many of the other sciences, but biology does have two dozen or so “rules”—broad generalizations about the behavior or nature ...

1 The Arts and Humanities (AH) and Social Sciences (SS) perspectives are subsets of the Breadth of Knowledge (BOK) requirements in the Core Curriculum. No more than two BOK courses can be taken with ...