This month, George Tiley began his NC State appointment as an assistant professor of plant and microbial biology. Right ...

The pelvis is often called the keystone of upright locomotion. More than any other part of our lower body, it has been ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Bipedal locomotion - walking upright on two legs - is a fundamental trait underpinning ...

A study led by Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz provides the first direct evidence that species that never interact can ...

Now a new study in Nature led by Harvard scientists reveals two key genetic shifts that remodeled the pelvis to help human ancestors become the upright bipeds ...

A new fossil study by scientists challenges long-held ideas of fish evolution, revealing surprising insights into early ...

Scientists have developed a theoretical model that uncovers the dual role of polyploidy -- organisms carrying extra genome copies -- in evolution. Their findings reveal that polyploidy can ...

Evolutionary biology is the study of how life diversifies and adapts over time through a range of processes including mutation, genetic drift, gene flow, and natural selection. From its classical ...

Evolutionary developmental biology of invertebrates is a must-have for any scientist, teacher or student interested in development and evolutionary biology as well as in general invertebrate zoology.

Tree thinking is a pedagogical approach that emphasises the interpretation and construction of phylogenetic trees to elucidate evolutionary relationships. In the context of evolutionary biology ...

Harvard’s Human Evolutionary Biology department is holding focus groups to seek student feedback on potential name options.

Can evolutionary biology tell us what’s kinky? Yes, but we also need to expand our notion of what's kinky and what's not.