Roughly nine out of 10 people favor their right hand, a pattern so common it can feel almost invisible. Yet in evolutionary ...

Learn more about humans’ 3-million-year-long relationship with red meat, and how the food that shaped human evolution may now come with a high health and environmental cost in the modern age.

As their joints stiffened, they learned to fly through water. Wings became flippers. The evolution of flippers is a classic case of exaptation, a phenomenon in biology that has much to teach our own ...

Cockroaches tend to unsettle people for obvious reasons, though their biology is often stranger than their appearance. One ...

Shark teeth are everywhere once people start noticing them. They turn up in fossil shops, washed along beaches, buried inside ...

After growing up in Mission Hill and initially studying nursing, Boswell’s path shifted when he began working bartending ...

A new interdisciplinary review published in The Quarterly Review of Biology argues that red meat, once an essential component ...

Researchers at the Technion have discovered how changes in genetic regulatory sequences can lead to alterations in the form and structure of animals—even when genetic regulatory systems are stable and ...

A new study reveals how transposable elements (TEs) expanded gene regulation during brain evolution, shaping modern neural ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence supporting a mechanism in which transposable elements (TEs), once considered ...

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution is delighted to launch Reviews in Evolutionary Developmental Biology, an article collection dedicated to publishing ...