Dr Svenson comes to Oxford University from the Cleveland Museum of Natural History (Ohio, USA), where he was curator of Invertebrate Zoology and, since 2022, chief science officer.

It may seem unusual to think of chimpanzees as doctors, but they more closely resemble human healers than you may expect.

News about paleontology, important paleontological discoveries and fossil studies ...

A recent study in Genome Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, found that the ASF virus, currently circulating in Europe, is not the result of a recent introduction. Instead, ...

The downstream consequences of religion, politics and war can have far-reaching effects on the environment and on the ...

Humans change the urban landscape with religious, cultural and political activities, which in turn can influence the ...

Scientists have discovered that starving and then refeeding worms can reveal surprising secrets about aging. When a specific ...

Evolutionary biology is a subdiscipline of the biological sciences concerned with the origin of life and the diversification and adaptation of life forms over time.

Why study ecology, evolution and organismal biology at UMass Lowell? Our rapidly changing world requires experts trained in global biodiversity and its conservation. The EEOB Option emphasizes ...

Study results advance understanding of how human cells evolved and could help point to new solutions for patients with rare genetic diseases.

In 1921, William Bell Riley admonished his opponents that they should “cease from shoveling in dirt on living men,” for the ...

Human beings have enjoyed a unique and lonely role among intelligences. Do other minds exist in life's other kingdoms? With ...