Frequent burn exposure may have driven human genetic adaptations that improve healing but worsen severe injury outcomes.

The study of early vertebrates provides an essential window into the evolutionary processes that shaped modern biodiversity. Fossil discoveries spanning the Silurian to Devonian periods reveal a ...

Why do humans have an appendix? New research is reshaping our understanding of this overlooked organ and its antiquated role ...

Evolutionary biology explores how living systems change over time through variation, inheritance and differential success. At its heart lies the concept of descent with modification: populations ...

The human ability to cook may seem ordinary, but it marks one of the most important evolutionary turning points in our ...

New research is significantly revising a widely cited evolutionary model, the Inhibitory Cascade Mode (ICM). Benjamin Auerbach, professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the ...

For decades, many evolutionary biologists argued that natural selection acts primarily on individuals. In other words, that organisms are rewarded or penalized one at a time, and that the idea of ...

Research study reports intriguing findings made through innovative artificial intelligence analysis about yeasts -- small fungi that are key contributors to biotechnology, food production, and human ...

Mild aggression and lethal violence evolved separately, according to research across 100 primate species. The study ...

The woman's body is often thought of as simply an average body. However, the more we learn about evolutionary biology, the ...

Evolutionary biology professor Scott Solomon breaks down what changes the Artemis II crew are experiencing in space and how ...