When COVID-19 arrived, researchers tried to build evolutionary family trees—known as phylogenetic trees—of the virus. These ...

Genomes are key to unlocking life's evolutionary history. The presence and absence of certain genetic sequences and mutations ...

This article introduces the field of bioinformatics and its importance as a cornerstone of biological research, as well as ...

A study led by the Institute of Biology Education shows that optional learning support effectively reaches the students who need it most and helps teachers manage varying skill levels in the classroom ...

Darwin knew he'd solved the paradox of how traits change across lineages, despite the fact that changes acquired over a ...

A more-than-a-century-old European beech tree located in a Vancouver Island park grew from seeds obtained in Flanders Fields, ...

But corals have been around for about 460 million years, and they have survived multiple mass extinction events, including ...

“Our work highlights how evolutionary adaptations to diet and disease may have influenced primate biology, including humans,” ...

Scientists have discovered three new species of African tree toads that break one of biology’s best-known rules. Instead of ...