A new study unexpectedly reveals that cells thrive on chaos. It may have fewer than many of the other sciences, but biology does have two dozen or so “rules”—broad generalizations about the behavior ...

"These 11 papers are just a sampling of the type of science that can be done with the new genetic data," says Shapiro, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California ...

An evolutionary biologist reports ... as celebrated scientist Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) described in his famous metaphor, "Replaying the Tape of Life," would life on Earth evolve, once again ...

In a famous 1955 paper ... field of urban evolutionary ecology remained tiny until recently: “Most evolutionary biologists would not be caught dead in a city,” says Johnson.

Footprints from Australia show reptiles may have evolved 35 million years earlier than thought, changing the timeline of ...

“These 11 papers are just a sampling of the type of science that can be done with the new genetic data,” said researcher Beth Shapiro, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the ...

Yet the bookends of news articles in high-profile international science ... debate in biology about the relative importance of existing variation versus new mutations in evolution.

They don't look alike, and they aren't biologically related, but part of their evolutionary history bears ... it has been taken up by hundreds of biologists since then. However, the term "living ...

John Scopes was indicted for teaching evolution. Science News looks at the forces that led to the trial and how expertise was the big loser.

divide and show “Darwinian evolution” within six years. The €13mn “MiniLife” project, which is funded by the European Research Council and involves biologists and chemists from several ...

LOGAN, UTAH, USA – A long-standing debate among evolutionary scientists ... as celebrated scientist Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) described in his famous metaphor, “Replaying the Tape of ...