Research suggests that crying is not a sign of weakness, but one of the most sophisticated social technologies in the natural ...

Noor has been a consultant on several episodes over the years, including season three of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.” “My ...

The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...

The Cromwell Harbor Foundation named two early-career scholars of extraordinary promise as the inaugural recipients of their Chrysalis Prize, awarding each scholar $250,000 in unrestricted support, ...

Evolutionary biology explores how living systems change over time through variation, inheritance and differential success. At its heart lies the concept of descent with modification: populations ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, finds that changes in animal development induced by climate shock persist ...

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 ...

Scientists have long tried to decode every dream we have. Some say it’s survival training, others say it’s memory at work, ...

Biologists are closing in on a puzzle that seems to turn classic evolutionary logic inside out, yet may be so common that it deserves to be called a new rule of life. Instead of always purging harmful ...

Biologists say the appendix isn’t useless after all. Evolution kept reinventing it, and it may help support gut immunity and ...

Evolutionary developmental biology, or evo‐devo, investigates how evolution shapes developmental processes to generate the diversity of life. It synthesises comparative embryology, genetics and ...