Evolutionary Biology

It’s true, Mr. and Ms. Hollywood Producer, Nash, Hawking, Turing were great and all, and their stories brought big bucks and a few Oscars rolling your way, but come on!

As adults, we don't often experience radical violations of our expectations, particularly those that concern core principles of object behavior.

A funny thing happened on the way to the endangered species list. Five years ago the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) petitioned to protect an Appalachian crayfish species under the U.S.

It must be the Year of the Sponge here at The Artful Amoeba, because I can’t seem to write enough posts about sponges and their amazing micro-scale architecture.

Higashijima Island doesn't look like much from the sky. This tiny, uninhabited scrap of land 1,000 kilometers south of the coast of Japan is only a few hectares in size.

Author's note: This is the latest post in the Wonderful Things series. You can read more about this series here. There is a fungus on our planet which is capable of not one, but two audacious and duplicitous acts: it pretends, on separate occasions, to be both to be a flower and a pollen grain, [...]

The rise of senior citizens may have played a big role in the success of our species

Modern genomes and ancient mummies offer clues to why the life span of Homo sapiens far exceeds that of other primates

We would look a lot different if evolution had designed the human body to work well for a century or more

The key indicator for animals may be total energy expended over a lifetime

People in their late 90s or older are often fitter than those 20 years younger. Traditional views of aging may need rethinking

Stress alone does not explain the longevity gap