The number of known proteins is infinitely small in comparison to the universe of possible proteins, which could in theory be ...

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 ...

Biologists are closing in on a puzzle that seems to turn classic evolutionary logic inside out, yet may be so common that it deserves to be called a new rule of life. Instead of always purging harmful ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1950 the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi was discussing the possibility of intelligent alien life with his colleagues. If alien ...

A Colorado charter school quickly backed down from teaching creationism to eighth graders, but the incident illustrates that ...

In Part One of this series, we saw that culture doesn't suffer from the problem that Darwin's theory of natural selection successfully solved: the problem of how change accumulates in biological ...

Roughly 45,000 years ago, one group of humans was hunting mammoths in the Siberian Arctic while another was navigating the dense rainforests of Sri Lanka. No other animal on Earth was doing both. A ...

Introduction : how to write history of biology -- The place of biology in the sciences and its conceptual structure -- The changing intellectual milieu of biology Diversity of life. Macrotaxonomy, the ...

Following vocal criticism of an initial revision to Iowa’s science education standards that stripped away phrases like “climate change” and “biological evolution” from what K-12 students should learn, ...