The Cromwell Harbor Foundation named two early-career scholars of extraordinary promise as the inaugural recipients of their Chrysalis Prize, awarding each scholar $250,000 in unrestricted support, ...

Scientists have long tried to decode every dream we have. Some say it’s survival training, others say it’s memory at work, ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Fifty years ago, Richard Dawkins shared an irresistible scientific metaphor with the world that modernised and democratised ...

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 ...

A new paper in Genome Biology and Evolution, indicates that while the COVID-19 virus has developed rapidly since 2019, it has done so within limited genetic channels. These genetic limits have ...

Evolutionary biology professor Scott Solomon discusses the long-term implication of the Artemis II mission.

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