In evolutionary biology, all life on Earth is theoretically part of a single phylogenetic tree, indicating common ancestry.

In ‘A Voice in the Wilderness,’ Joseph L. Graves Jr. discusses his scientific journey, how he debates racists, and more.

Every human voice is acoustically unique. The anatomy and evolutionary history behind that fact turns out to be one of ...

Science dismissed the wrinkly finger as osmosis for a century. The real answer runs through your autonomic nervous system, ...

How will life on Earth and the ecosystems that support it adapt to climate change? Which species will go extinct – or evolve into something new? How will microbes develop further resistance to ...

A new study by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology (MPI-EB) sheds fresh light on one of the most debated concepts in biology: evolvability. The work provides the first ...

Macrophages have some startling similarities to amoebae. (RUSLANAS BARANAUSKAS/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) You ...

"This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature"--Verso of title page. Outgrowth of and selected papers presented at the 19th Evolutionary Biology Meeting, held in September 2015, in Marseille, ...

We humans have long viewed ourselves as the pinnacle of evolution. People label other species as “primitive” or “ancient” and use terms like “higher” and “lower” animals. This anthropocentric ...