The study tracks mammoth evolution over a million years using mitogenomes, showing shifts in diversity and lineage tied to ...

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For decades, many scientists have relied on the "hard steps" model to suggest that intelligent life is rare — the improbable ...

Like many evolutionary biologists, Margres and Hirst assumed the larger islands’ biodiversity would result in more complex ...

An international collaboration has published groundbreaking research, shedding light on the most significant increase in complexity in the history of life's evolution on Earth: the origin of the ...

The National Academy of Sciences announced today the election of 120 members and 30 international members in recognition of ...

Curtis Lawrence III is set to graduate after making history at his HBCU. At 16 years old, Lawrence’s bright future was ...

Ever noticed a sudden uptick in your desire for intimacy mid-month? You’re not imagining it—your hormones might be staging a ...

The study recently published in PNAS not only answers essential questions, but is interdisciplinary, combining computational biology, evolutionary biology, and physics. "It has the potential to ...

Biology professor Rodolfo Dirzo revealed the personal challenges of his journey through STEM and offered guidance to young ...

In a comprehensive study conducted at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, researchers tracked 244 wild-derived male house mice—yes, the kind you'd find in barns or basements ...