Study of fossils from northern Spain suggests the evolutionary process in our genus is largely characterized by stasis

Monarchs, milkweed, and self-medication in a changing world

New analysis represents major change in the presumed nature of the planet's earliest angiosperms

IU biologist contributes to international effort to extend basic principles upon which Darwin’s theory was founded

The author of a new study of evolutionary convergence argues that the development of life on Earth is predictable, meaning that similar organisms should therefore have appeared on other, Earth-like planets by now. 

UNC School of Medicine researchers provide first direct experimental evidence for the rapid synthesis of two classes of proteins necessary to create the first life on Earth.

In social amoebae, genes for cooperation and for cheating have reached a stalemate.

Scientists have successfully replicated the molecular processes that led from dinosaur snouts to the first bird beaks

University of Iowa researchers contend chin comes from evolution, not mechanical forces

A duel between mathematical models supports the reigning theory of the genetics of altruism.