In the spring, ants are once again hard at work. Beyond their everyday presence, ants are also key model organisms in cutting ...

The bacterial flagellar motor is finally understood after 50 years. In its workings, columnist Natalie Wolchover finds the ...

For more than 270 million years, trilobites were among the most successful and diverse creatures on Earth, with over 22,000 ...

Two unrelated groups of nectar eaters, hummingbirds and sunbirds, evolved different techniques to slurp the sweet liquid from ...

According to Hulsey’s research, decisions like that could lead to evolutionary changes within decades for native species. 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 change ...

Ancient DNA reveals how farming accelerated human evolution, driving genetic changes over the past 10,000 years.

Molecular evolution is the area of evolutionary biology that studies evolutionary change at the level of the DNA sequence. It includes the study of rates of sequence change, relative importance of ...

When humans started farming around 10,000 years ago, they reshaped their landscapes, diets, and social structures. A common ...