Organisms as diverse as amoebas and elephants frequently live in groups. Why do these and many other animals form complex societies? Aa Aa Aa Organisms are inherently competitive, yet cooperation ...

Carcinization refers to the process of several independent groups of crustaceans evolving to take on a crab-like form. The ...

For over a century, biologists have puzzled over the origins of animals that first emerged in ancient oceans more than 600 million years ago. Central to this debate is the question of which group ...

How did humans evolve into the big-brained, bipedal ape that we are today? This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution. Darwin's great insight, and the unifying ...

The Animal Evolutionary Ecology group offers a variety of courses for Bachelor and Master students. In the third/fifth semester of the Bachelor's programme we are responsible for the lecture ...

There are around 66,000 species of rove beetles and one researcher proposes it's because of one special gland.