A reduced genome in an island species raises evolutionary questions.

The pelvis is often called the keystone of upright movement. It helps explain how human ancestors left life on all fours ...

Biologists are closing in on a puzzle that seems to turn classic evolutionary logic inside out, yet may be so common that it ...

In the mice with large-brain primate microbes, the researchers found increased expression of genes associated with energy ...

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan have identified the genes that allow an organism to switch between living as single ...

Our rapidly changing world requires experts trained in global biodiversity and its conservation. The EEOB Option emphasizes organismal diversity, ecology, and evolution in courses with outdoor field ...

It may have fewer than many of the other sciences, but biology does have two dozen or so “rules”—broad generalizations about the behavior or nature and evolution. Now, USC researchers want to add a ...