Research Articles
The Six-Legged Masquerade: What Playing with Ants Teaches Us About Life
An immersive journey into the world of insect games and evolutionary deception through ant mimicry
The Frog Whisperers: How Murray and Patsy Littlejohn Decoded Nature's Symphony
Discover how Murray and Patsy Littlejohn pioneered frog bioacoustics research, revealing how frog calls drive evolution and speciation through their groundbreaking scientific partnership.
Reading Edith Wharton Through a Darwinian Lens: Evolutionary Biology Issues in Her Fiction
Explore how Edith Wharton used Darwinian evolutionary theory to analyze Gilded Age society in her fiction, examining mate selection, social competition, and adaptation in her major novels.
Unlocking the Tree of Life: The Algorithms Revolutionizing Evolutionary Biology
Explore how innovative algorithms are transforming evolutionary biology by enabling comparison, compression, and sharing of massive phylogenetic tree collections.
The Blind Spots of Discovery: How Hidden Biases Shape Our Understanding of Life
Exploring how cognitive biases influence biological research in evolutionary biology and behavioral neurobiology, with solutions for more objective science.
The Unpredictable Tape of Life: Stephen Jay Gould's Revolutionary Vision of Biology's "Laws"
Exploring Stephen Jay Gould's groundbreaking ideas about contingency in evolution and why biology defies physics-like laws.
The Shells That Shaped History: Unearthing Evolutionary Secrets in Turkana's Mud
Exploring the evolutionary secrets of freshwater molluscs in Turkana Basin and how they reshape our understanding of speciation and climate change impacts.