A new study conducted by the Institute for Biology Education has concluded that the way in which supporting knowledge of key ...

One genetic source ... variation in pigmentation patterns of different fruitfly species has been identified. This study illustrates the power of bringing together developmental and evolutionary ...

Also known as selective breeding, artificial selection is the human-guided cousin of evolution by natural selection. Instead ...

Large-scale comparison of gene families across 1154 Saccharomycotina genomes revealed that gene gains and losses drive yeast ...

Biologists recently announced that they have released the first broad scale, comparative, fine-grained analysis linking the amplitude, or volume, of a birds' song to its vocal frequency, or pitch.

Chinese researchers recently uncovered molecular evidence supporting Lamarckism—a long-debated theory from the early 19th ...

DNA is the genetic code that provides the biological instructions for every living species, but not every bit of DNA helps ...

Evolution is a challenging subject to teach. It is a central concept in biology, so the topical coverage ... such as expression of variation, evolution of sex, evolution of life histories and ...

Menezes, graduate student in the Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Program at UMass Amherst ... "There's considerable variation across species," says Menezes. Of the 53 species the team sampled ...

Chinese researchers recently discovered molecular evidence supporting Lamarckism, a long-debated theory from the early 19th ...