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.

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

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

In evolutionary biology, convergent evolution is the process whereby organisms not closely related (not monophyletic), independently evolve similar traits as a result of having to adapt to similar ...

A new study by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology (MPI-EB) sheds fresh light on one of the most debated concepts in biology: evolvability. The work provides the first ...

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 ...