Why do some species live for only weeks while others survive for centuries? Researchers at the Leibniz Institute on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...