Research Articles
The Ultimate Blueprint: The Evolutionary Arms Race of Making Babies
Explore the fascinating evolutionary strategies behind reproduction and development, from asexual cloning to the genetic tango of sexual reproduction.
The Images That Wouldn't Disappear: The Haeckel Controversy
The story of Ernst Haeckel's controversial embryo illustrations that shook the 19th century scientific community and continue to spark debate today.
The God-Shaped Puzzle: How Science is Decoding the Evolution of Religion
Explore how biology, psychology, and anthropology are revealing why humans evolved to believe in gods and supernatural forces.
How Gene Family Disagreements Are Rewriting Our Understanding of Evolution
Explore how concordance-based approaches in phylogenomics are revolutionizing our understanding of evolutionary relationships through gene tree analysis.
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.
Beyond Balance: How Life's Developmental Flow Shapes Evolution
Exploring homeorhesis as an alternative to homeostasis and its role in evolutionary biology through mathematical modeling and fossil record analysis.
Evolutionary Biotechnology: Programming Life's Code to Solve Modern Challenges
Explore how evolutionary biotechnology accelerates evolution for human benefit through directed evolution, molecular engineering, and cutting-edge experiments.
Jumping Genes: How Nature's Mutators Supercharge Evolution
Explore how jumping genes act as natural mutators that accelerate evolutionary processes and enable revolutionary genetic technologies.
Return to the Blue: How Marine Tetrapods Conquered the Oceans
Explore the evolutionary journey of marine tetrapods from the Triassic to the Anthropocene, featuring their remarkable adaptations and ecological significance.