Research Articles
Piaget's Living Ideas: How a Psychologist Revolutionized Evolutionary Theory
Explore how Jean Piaget's biological research with snails and plants shaped his revolutionary theories of cognitive development and evolution.
Ernst Mayr's Biogeography: Decoding the Patterns of Island Life
Explore Ernst Mayr's groundbreaking work on island biogeography and how his studies of Pacific island birds transformed our understanding of evolution and species formation.
Science or Ideology?: Sociobiology and the Battle for Human Nature
Exploring the controversial field of sociobiology, its key concepts, the Trivers-Willard hypothesis, and its modern legacy in evolutionary psychology.
Julian Huxley and the Scientific Case for Biological Progress
Explore Julian Huxley's revolutionary concept of biological progress as a scientific reality, from his three-sector evolutionary model to his groundbreaking research on allometry and animal behavior.
The Artist and the Embryo: How Ernst Haeckel Drove Evolution Science and Scandal
Explore Ernst Haeckel's controversial legacy in embryology and evolution, from his Biogenetic Law to modern reevaluation in evolutionary developmental biology.
The Athletic Animal: How Evolution Sculpted Our Sporting Abilities
Exploring the evolutionary foundations of human athletic performance through sports science research and biological mechanisms.
Origin and Evolution of Life from the Perspective of Chronobiology
Explore how chronobiology provides insights into the origin and evolution of life through biological rhythms and temporal organization
The Quirky Machinery of Life: Why Biology Favors Complexity Over Perfection
Exploring how biological systems thrive through complex, non-optimal architectures rather than perfect efficiency
The Pony Fish's Glow: And Other Clues to Plan and Purpose in Nature
Explore the fascinating world of bioluminescence in marine life, from ponyfish to flashlight fish, and discover the science behind nature's living lights.
Unraveling the Plant Family Tree: The Forgotten Science of Evolutionary Morphology
Explore how scientists decipher plant evolutionary history through morphology and discover Armen Takhtajan's groundbreaking botanical research.