While the endosymbiotic theory is widely accepted, the billions of years that have passed since the fusion of an archaea and ...

An international team of paleontologists, geologists, geoscientists and Earth scientists has found evidence that a type of ...

Researchers found LUCA, our earliest common ancestor, lived 4.2 billion years ago. It had a complex biology, affecting its ...

“Evolution isn't just a story ... extinct over the 3.5-billion-year history of life on Earth––can be summarized in an enormous family tree. To help you explore this tree and understand ...

A new comparison and analysis of the genomes of species in the genus Malus, which includes the domesticated apple and its ...

Mutations fuel evolution while also causing diseases like cancer. Epigenome-targeted DNA repair can help organisms protect important genomic regions from mutation. However, the adaptive value, ...

A new comparison and analysis of the genomes of species in the genus Malus, which includes the domesticated apple and its wild relatives, revealed the evolutionary relationships among the species and ...

Shrimp look an awful lot like bugs. The exoskeletons, jointed legs and compound eyes of both groups of living things give ...

While rare, a few birds we studied were rule-breakers. One such rule-breaker is the Eurasian spoonbill, whose highly ...

The ecology and evolutionary biology (EBIO) graduate program provides advanced training ... educators and citizens who are equipped with skills to build careers that advance knowledge about life on ...

I am the Principle Investigator for the Research on Ecology and Evolution Education for Action and Change (RE 3 ACH) lab. My lab engages in biology education research ... of research-course design.