Research Articles
What is Life? A Philosopher's Guide to Biology's Biggest Questions
Explore the intersection of biology and philosophy through key concepts, experiments, and tools that help us understand life's deepest mysteries.
Does Your Major Shape How You Learn Evolution? Anthropology vs. Biology
Explore how anthropology and biology students learn evolution differently, with comparative data on evolutionary understanding across disciplines.
The Biological Roots of Religion: What Ancient Rituals Reveal About Human Nature
Exploring Walter Burkert's groundbreaking research on the biological foundations of religious behavior across ancient civilizations.
The Reasonable Ineffectiveness of Mathematics in Biology
Exploring why life's beautiful chaos confuses our neat mathematical equations and why biology may be mathematically intractable in ways that physics isn't.
The Untangling of the Tree: Why Evolution Isn't a March of Progress
Explore how modern biology reveals evolution as a branching Tree of Life rather than a linear march of progress, challenging our understanding of biological advancement.
The Missing Link: The Biological Roots of the Business Sciences
Discover how evolutionary biology shapes modern business decisions, from boardroom negotiations to marketing strategies.
The Protein Whisperer: How AI Learned Biology's Secret Language from 250 Million Recipes
Discover how AI is decoding protein structures using unsupervised learning on 250 million protein sequences, revolutionizing biology and medicine.
What is Innovation? New Lessons from Biology
Discover how biological innovation reveals fundamental principles about creativity, adaptation, and transformation in complex systems from cells to societies.
The Fishy Science of Life's Tough Choices: How a Guppy's Dilemma Built a Supermodel
Explore how Professor Robert J. Wootton's research on fish ecology revealed universal principles of life-history theory through the study of guppies and their evolutionary trade-offs.
How Evolution Gets Real: Texas Scientists Revolutionize Teaching with Live Experiments
Discover how Texas biology and anthropology faculty are transforming evolution education through real-time experiments and innovative teaching approaches.