Research Articles
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.
Evolution is Everywhere: How a Simple Biological Idea Explains Our Entire World
Explore how evolutionary theory extends beyond biology to explain human behavior, culture, and society through engaging experiments and data visualizations.
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.
Navigating the Evolutionary Map: How Landscape Metaphors Shape Science
Exploring how the 90-year-old fitness landscape metaphor continues to influence scientific thought despite recent challenges to its accuracy.
Champions of Evolution: Recognizing Scientific Excellence with the American Society of Naturalists
Explore the 2010 American Society of Naturalists Awards and discover how evolutionary biology research is unifying our understanding of the natural world.
The Great Leaps of Life: Unraveling Evolution's Major Transitions
Explore the revolutionary jumps in evolution that transformed how life organizes, stores information, and cooperates, creating biological complexity.
The Evolutionary Seesaw: How Nature's Balancing Acts Shape Wild Populations
Explore how frequency-dependent selection and environmental heterogeneity maintain diversity in wild populations through fascinating evolutionary mechanisms.
From Ladders to Webs: The Pictures That Shaped Our View of Life
How Darwin's tree of life overturned 2,000 years of biological thinking and why we're redrawing it again with modern metaphors.
Nature's Repeat Button: How Divergent Natural Selection Sculpts Life Again and Again
Explore how divergent natural selection drives repeated trait evolution across species, from tropical fish to flowering plants, creating predictable evolutionary patterns.
Evolutionary Competition as Religion: A Biological Perspective on Maori and Vaisnava Sahajiya Traditions
Exploring how religious traditions function as evolutionary adaptations through case studies of Maori and Vaisnava Sahajiya traditions