Animals, from worms and sponges to jellyfish and whales, contain anywhere from a few thousand to tens of trillions of nearly ...

Over the spring semester, prestigious national and international organizations recognized Brown faculty for their research, ...

In 1921, William Bell Riley admonished his opponents that they should “cease from shoveling in dirt on living men,” for the ...

Shell-rich rocks trace a mostly upward climb in ocean life, with each mass extinction slashing both diversity and biomass ...

Alignment and sequencing errors are a major concern in molecular evolution, and this valuable study represents a welcome improvement for genome-wide scans of positive selection. This new method seems ...

In a first-of-its-kind study, Stanford researchers have measured how the abundance of ocean life has changed over the past half-billion years of ...

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

Three scholars — Kenneth Kemp, a professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota; Daniel Kuebler, a professor of biology at Franciscan University; and Chris Baglow ...

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.

The Biology department at the University of Vermont has something big to celebrate. Dr. Nicholas “Nick” Gotelli — a name that’s long been synonymous with innovation, rigor, and mentorship in the world ...

Graham Coop, the director of the university’s Center for Population Biology, was among nearly 250 new members announced last month by the academy, one of the nation’s oldest scholarly societies.