Gut Microbes may have helped fuel the evolution of large human brains, shaping brain metabolism and gene activity, new ...

The study blends math, statistics and biology to show that this long-held hyperbolic pattern is an anomaly because it doesn't account for the fact that all species on earth are defined as much by ...

Assembly Theory is a way to understand how the complexity of life emerged through a mechanism of “self-assembly.” It could explain how life formed on Earth—or other planets—via the shortest path to ...

Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences has officially voted to change the name of the Human Evolutionary Biology concentration during a meeting on April 1. Effective as of July 1, 2025 — when the ...

Birds are the most diverse land vertebrate on the planet, and now scientists have constructed a complete evolutionary tree of the 11,000 or so known species. This data came from hundreds of studies ...

Bears look like textbook mammals, but hidden in their evolutionary history are two dramatic departures from the standard blueprint of growth and adaptation. For the first time, scientists have ...

So picture this: Dinner is done and I offer to clean up. About half the chicken and split pea soup (which was really good, by the way!) is left. In the spirit of getting the tough stuff out of the way ...

There has been recent discussion within evolutionary psychology circles about the misuse of evolutionary psychological research findings, prompted by a piece in the Boston Globe from leading ...

For more than a century, biologists assumed that the bony plates embedded in the skin of lizards – like natural chain mail – ...

A reduced genome in an island species raises evolutionary questions.