Researchers have taken a unique approach to explain the way in which technologies evolve in modern society. Borrowing a technique that biologists might use to study the evolution of plants or ...

For over a century, scientists have puzzled over a fundamental mystery in our evolutionary history: how did mammals go from ...

Mitochondria are the body's "energy factories," and their proper function is essential for life. Inside mitochondria, a set ...

MAY 2014: Darin Croft, associate professor of anatomy, and evolutionary biology major Russell Engelman published an article in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology about Engelman's identification of ...

Organisms influence – and are influenced by – natural selection. Erik Svensson, Author provided. Evolutionary biology today is a messy patchwork of several loosely connected subfields.This ...

Using a modern approach to evolutionary biology called cladistics, which utilizes genetic information in combination with a variety of other data to evaluate biological relationships that emerge ...

Four of his contributions to evolutionary biology are especially important, as they held considerable sway beyond that discipline. The first is the nonconstancy of species, or the modern ...

Current Biology 25:1975-1981. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.05.058 Mendelson TC, Martin MD, and Flaxman SM. 2014. Mutation-order divergence by sexual selection: diversification of sexual signals in similar ...

In all three genera, I am examining how hybridization has shaped evolution, including the origin of new hybrid species, the breeding of modern lineages of domesticated plants, and the spread of ...

Scholars Break Down Compatibility of Evolution and Catholic Doctrine at Conference The conference ran from June 6–8 at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.