Research Articles
Cultural Evolution: How Ideas, Traditions, and Innovations Change Over Time
Explore the Darwinian principles behind cultural evolution and how ideas, traditions, and innovations transform through transmission pathways, biases, and cumulative culture.
The Calorie Revolution: How Science is Rethinking Low-Energy Diets
Explore how scientific research is transforming our understanding of low-calorie diets, metabolism, and weight management beyond simple calorie counting.
The Cultural Ecosystem: How Ecology and Evolution Shape Human Culture
Exploring how ecological pressures and evolutionary processes jointly shape human culture through an eco-evolutionary lens.
Yeast, Molecular Matchmaker: How Baker's Yeast Revolutionized Our Understanding of Hormone Receptors and Gene Activation
Discover how yeast hormone response element assays revealed GRIP1 coactivator activation of thyroid and retinoid nuclear receptors in gene regulation.
Life's Blueprint: How Evo-Devo is Rewriting the Story of Evolution
Explore how Evolutionary Developmental Biology reveals nature's deepest secrets through genetic toolkits and environmental interactions.
When Science and Education Failed: The Troubling History of Eugenics in College Textbooks
Exploring how eugenics infiltrated college textbooks and education policy in early 20th century America, with lasting implications for science and society.
Unveiling Hidden Biological Rhythms: How Wavelet Mathematics Revolutionizes Circadian Science
Explore how wavelet spectral testing transforms our understanding of nonstationary circadian rhythms in health and disease.
The Hidden Ecology of Cities: Unveiling Nature's Blueprint in the Built Environment
Explore how cities function as complex ecosystems through the lens of Adler and Tanner's groundbreaking work on urban ecology.
Welcome to Diversity: The Invisible Engine That Runs Our World
Explore the critical importance of biodiversity and how the reintroduction of wolves transformed Yellowstone National Park in this engaging popular science article.
The Universe's Two Masters: How Chaos and Information Shape Life's Story
Explore the fascinating interplay between entropy and information as the fundamental forces driving biological evolution and complexity in the universe.