Evolution (EBIO 3080) These are course materials for a one-semester Evolution course, an upper-division class required of ecology and evolutionary biology majors. The course is designed to teach basic ...

Evolutionary biology today is a messy patchwork of several loosely connected subfields. This reflects the enormous diversity of phenomena that we study and the many interests of biologists.

Some say this is a straw man argument, as it takes issue with old-fashioned ideas about evolutionary biology, whereas modern thinking is broad enough to encompass all the new aspects we are learning ...

The eukaryotic cell emerged as an evolutionary algorithmic phase transition Eukaryogenesis happened abruptly, led by the tension of increasing gene length and the constraints on producing longer ...