Charles Darwin said that evolution was constantly happening, causing animals to adapt for survival. But many of his contemporaries disagreed. If evolution is always causing things to change, they ...

Can a snake in Thailand influence the evolution of a snake in the Philippines even if the two species never cross paths?

Religion, politics and war are interconnected in complex ways, especially in cities where human decisions dramatically affect the environment. While religious practices can shape moral frameworks 1, ...

Systems-level thinking has transformed how we study life across scales, from molecules and cells to populations, communities ...

Synthetic biology aims to apply engineering principles and the design process to create biological systems with new and desired functionalities 1. While it is seen by many as a young field that ...

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 ...

A new dataset of genetic information collected from 233 primate species, the largest and most complete of its kind, promises to yield insights into primates’ evolutionary biology and how genetics ...

Two CU Boulder researchers are helping clarify how species’ populations with longer lives can still adapt to a changing climate. Since the Renaissance, fly agaric has appeared in art and literature, ...

Professor Patricia Sanchez-Baracaldo passed away on 12 April 2026. Her friends and colleagues, Fanny Monteiro and Rachel ...

What happens when natural selection, the most powerful process driving change in the living world, shapes artificial intelligence (AI), perhaps the most potent technology humanity has invented to date ...