Some microorganisms lose the ability to perform a function that appears to be necessary for their survival, and yet they still somehow manage to endure and multiply. How can that be?  One…

Lucy, Australopithecus afarensis, was not walking around Africa alone three million years ago.   Biologists knew that, of course, the neatly linear line from critter to modern man does not exist…

Are you ugly?  Maybe that's something else to blame your mother about. Female cognitive ability can impact how handsome males become over evolutionary time, say biologists from The University of…

ANARCHY AND EVOLUTIONCompetition of life forms (bio-human, android, nanobots, robot) is critical for them to evolve into robust species capable of dealing with all the diversity in the universe.…

Researchers have completed the genome sequence for the gorilla, the last genus of the living great apes to have its genome decoded. The results confirm that our closest relative is the chimpanzee but…

Nobel Prize winner Jack Szostak recently wrote an opinion piece titled "Attempts to Define Life Do Not Help to Understand the Origin of Life" which was published in the Journal of Biomolecular…

The path leading to today's technological society has gone through several phases of evolution. Carl Sagan distinguished three main phases of evolution: biological evolution, development of the…

Jerry Coyne is a goose.There, I've said it.I mean it in the nicest possible way of course, but it had to be said.And the reason for this unseemly outburst?Well, if you want to see something really…

How do new species arise? This question is still being vigorously researched in evolutionary biology. New technologies, such as genomics, provide intriguing new opportunities to investigate the…

 “It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.”  The Red Queen, Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll.     How did sexual reproduction evolve?…