A biologist explains the surprising evolutionary math behind how the blue whale became the largest animal that has ever lived ...

Some ants thrive by choosing numbers over strength. Instead of heavily protecting each worker, they invest fewer resources in ...

A 1.6-million-year-old Ethiopian skull blends ancestor and descendant features, rewriting the origin story of Homo erectus.

A new study led by UCC paleontologists discovered that frogs have conserved their ecology in the last 45 million years. The ...

Every living being must cope with a changing world—summer gives way to winter, one year it floods and the next is a drought.

The researchers think the pattern they observed in ants reflects a more universal trend in the evolution of societal ...

Digital evolution experiments show repeated environmental changes can push populations toward different long term outcomes.

New research shows that losing threatened requiem shark species could erase millions of years of tooth evolution and squeeze ...

A study reveals how seabream change sex and why some males invest more sperm, rewriting the hidden biology of these fish.

Discover how evolutionary economics explains economic change, emphasizing psychological influences and societal dynamics, with historic insights and practical examples.

The proposal that evolution could be used as a metaphor for problem solving came with the invention of the computer 1. In the 1970s and 1980s the principal idea was developed into different ...

Schizophrenia affects around 23 million people globally, or one in 345 people. The illness can beset sufferers with ...