Studying evolution by focusing solely on fossils would leave many questions unanswered, but evolutionary developmental biology (otherwise known as "evo-devo") helps fill in the gaps. Evo-devo ...

New research is significantly revising a widely cited evolutionary model, the Inhibitory Cascade Mode (ICM). Benjamin Auerbach, professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the ...

The emergence of metazoan multicellularity has captivated evolutionary cell and developmental biologists for decades. Recent advances in genome sequencing, phylogenetic comparisons, the successful ...

Gabriel D. Victora's team has turned germinal centers into a living laboratory for one of biology's oldest questions: how ...

Facey, Douglas E., Bowen, Brian W., Collette, Bruce B., and Helfman, Gene S. 2023. The Diversity of Fishes: Biology, Evolution and Ecology. 3rd ed. Hoboken, New ...

A new platform combines rational protein design with continuous evolution to discover functional molecules more efficiently. In medicine and biotechnology, the ability to evolve proteins with new or ...

Most bacteria replicate quickly. For example, Escherichia coli double their number in just 20 minutes. If the bacteria are infectious human pathogens, such rapid replication can be problematic. But ...