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 ...

My colleague and I have published a new study of cactus flowers which may help explain the conundrum. For more than a century ...

Rajiv McCoy is a newly tenured Associate Professor within the Department of Biology at Hopkins. He is renowned for his ...

Selection in Assembly Space. (A) Pictorial representation of the assembly space represents the formation of combinatorial object space from building blocks and physical constraints. (B) Observed copy ...

The human ability to cook may seem ordinary, but it marks one of the most important evolutionary turning points in our species’ history.

A new study shows cultural evolution helped humans expand across Earth far faster than genetic change alone could achieve.

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An international team of researchers has developed a new theoretical framework that bridges physics and biology to provide a unified approach for understanding how complexity and evolution emerge in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This question of why some branches of the tree of life explode into thousands of species, while others remain small, has shaped ...

Assembly theory bridges the gap between physics and biology in explaining how complex objects are identifiable as products of evolution and how reusability of parts allows novelty and identical ...