In a nutshell Human placentas produce exceptionally high hormone levels that may have driven our brain evolution, not male ...

The placenta and the hormones it produces may have played a crucial role in the evolution of the human brain, while also ...

Researchers examine a 500-million-year-old fossil from Morocco and find out that echinoderms went from bilateral to ...

Molecular Biology and Evolution is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution.

Wild Bio, a start-up using evolutionary biology to develop resilient crops, has partnered with Oxford University scientists on a £6m project backed by the Advanced Research + Invention Agency.

In fact, various aspects of evolutionary biology may seem counterintuitive and could even be seen as a reason to reject evolution as a whole. In fact, they strengthen our understanding rather than ...

It was then, at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, that Thomas Huxley, an English biologist and representative of the new theory of evolution, bested in debate Samuel Wilberforce ...

Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences has officially voted to change the name of the Human Evolutionary Biology concentration during a meeting on April 1. Effective as of July 1, 2025 — when the ...

Harvard’s Human Evolutionary Biology concentration may soon be known by a different name. In an email to concentrators, Ashley Johnson, the HEB undergraduate program coordinator, wrote that the ...