Microorganisms—bacteria, viruses and other tiny life forms—may drive biological variation in visible life as much, if not ...

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more common and sophisticated, its effects on human lives and societies raises new questions. A new paper published in The Quarterly Review of Biology posits ...

Microbes profoundly impact evolution, shaping traits alongside genes. Holobiont biology highlights how hosts and microbes ...

New research unveils the evolutionary origins of stem cells through a groundbreaking experiment that successfully created a ...

Evolutionary Biology eLife reviews research spanning behavior, morphology, evolution of developmental processes, palaeontology, experimental evolution and evolutionary theory. Learn more about what we ...

Nov. 7, 2024 — A recent study finds that color vision evolved in animals more than 100 million years before the emergence of colorful fruits and flowers. And there ...

Measuring how mutations in the promoter of a metabolic gene modified its expression level and affected growth of Saccharomyces cerevisiae in four environments, the authors show that the effects of ...

Leveraging a unique statistical analysis and applying it to ancient DNA extracted from human skeletal remains, a team of ...

The history of a major animal group, composed of millions of species of insects, arachnids, and nemotodes, has been elusive -- until now. A team has now identified the oldest known ecdysozoan in the ...

Evolutionary developmental biology is the comparative study of organismal development and how it has evolved. There is a particular focus on the genetic basis of phenotypic structures, how they ...

Mirroring the mechanisms that make human faces and bodies—and those of many multicellular organisms—symmetrical, bee colonies ...

I am a plant community ecologist working at the interface of ecosystem, landscape and population biology. My goal is to apply cutting-edge “usable” science to the challenges of restoration, species ...