Asteraceae, a family of flowering plants, are the most diverse group of flowering plants in the world. This plant family ...

A University of Arizona scientist is a co-author in an international study that has zeroed in on a short list of animals from ...

a paleoanthropologist from Harvard University's Department of Human Evolutionary Biology. (Alex is also a regular Discover contributor.) Most fossil remains from the period are fragmentary, with parts ...

But to the authors of the paper, the takeaway is clear. Michael Worobey, head of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary ...

Where do new genes come from? That's the question a team of biological sciences researchers from the U of A set out to answer ...

Biological scientists at the U of A propose a new model for understanding how new genes and novel functions can originate through recycling and innovation of “junk.” ...

A Mississippi State biologist has discovered a new parasitic wasp species that uniquely targets adult flies, a scientific ...

Experimental evolution is the use of laboratory or controlled field manipulations to investigate evolutionary processes. It usually makes use of organisms with rapid generation times and small ...

Glen Hood, Ph.D., assistant professor of biological sciences in Wayne State University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences ...

"Rules of biology typically involve conservation of resources," Tower ... He adds that this process plays a key role in evolution. As cells live in this constant flux of instability, they can exist in ...

van Gestel, Jordi Wagner, Andreas and Barton, Nick H. 2021. Cryptic surface-associated multicellularity emerges through cell adhesion and its regulation. PLOS Biology ...

Viral evolution refers to the heritable genetic changes that a virus accumulates during its life time, which can arise from adaptations in response to environmental changes or the immune response ...