Tag: Evolutionary biology
Power struggles in nature can be more subtle, nuanced and strategic...
Lee Alan Dugatkin, University of Louisville
Scientists used to think power in animals played out in a tidy and...
Axolotls can regenerate their brains – these adorable salamanders are helping...
Ashley Maynard, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
The axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) is an aquatic salamander renowned for its...
Deer have antlers, walruses have tusks – here’s why so few...
Alexandre V. Palaoro, Clemson University and João C. T. Menezes, UMass Amherst
Mating season in the animal kingdom can...
Genetic GPS system of animal development explains why limbs grow from...
Ethan Bier, University of California San Diego
Why do human look like humans, rather than like chimps? Although we...
Evolution doesn’t proceed in a straight line – so why draw...
Quentin Wheeler, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry; Antonio G. Valdecasas, CSIC - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, and...
Bird DNA helps explain Amazonian rivers’ role in evolution
Luciano Nicolas Naka, Harvard University
When the young naturalist Alfred R. Wallace left England to explore the New World in 1848, one of his key...
How virtual worlds can recreate the geographic history of life
Robert K. Colwell, University of Connecticut and Thiago F. Rangel, Universidade Federal de Goias
The Amazon and the adjacent Andean slopes in South America host...
Discovery of a surprise multitasking gene helps explain how new functions...
Katherine L. Petrie, University of California San Diego and Justin Meyer, University of California San Diego
Evolutionary biologists like us try to figure out how...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
