A biologist explains the surprising evolutionary math behind how the blue whale became the largest animal that has ever lived ...

Some ants thrive by choosing numbers over strength. Instead of heavily protecting each worker, they invest fewer resources in ...

A 1.6-million-year-old Ethiopian skull blends ancestor and descendant features, rewriting the origin story of Homo erectus.

A new study led by UCC paleontologists discovered that frogs have conserved their ecology in the last 45 million years. The ...

Discover how evolutionary economics explains economic change, emphasizing psychological influences and societal dynamics, with historic insights and practical examples.

Every living being must cope with a changing world—summer gives way to winter, one year it floods and the next is a drought.

The researchers think the pattern they observed in ants reflects a more universal trend in the evolution of societal ...

A study reveals how seabream change sex and why some males invest more sperm, rewriting the hidden biology of these fish.

New research shows that losing threatened requiem shark species could erase millions of years of tooth evolution and squeeze ...

The proposal that evolution could be used as a metaphor for problem solving came with the invention of the computer 1. In the 1970s and 1980s the principal idea was developed into different ...

Evolutionary biochemistry aims to dissect the evolutionary processes and physical mechanisms by which biological molecules diversified and to reveal how their physical architecture facilitates and ...

New research suggests that determining evolutionary trees of organisms by comparing anatomy rather than gene sequences is misleading. The study shows that we often need to overturn centuries of ...