Evolution of human traitsIcons depict cultural and biological milestones in human evolution. Álvaro Valiño Evolution is relentless; when the chance of survival can be increased, it finds a way ...

“The central idea of biological evolution is that all life on Earth shares a common ancestor,” according to Understanding Evolution, a joint project of the University of California Museum of ...

The requirements for the major in the biological sciences provide both a solid foundation in biology and opportunities to pursue special interests. The major embraces three broad core areas: cells, ...

Imagine a world where we could predict the behavior of life just by analyzing a sequence of letters. This is not science ...

Cultural evolution is the change over time of non-biological aspects of human society. The process is loosely analogous to biological evolution, although does not necessarily involve Darwinian ...

Biological anthropology is the sub-discipline of anthropology that studies human evolution and variation. Specific emphasis is on mechanisms of biological evolution, genetic inheritance, human ...

Researchers in the School of Biological Sciences conduct cutting-edge research across a broad range of biological disciplines, including genomics, biotechnology, cell biology, molecular plant science, ...

Darwin and his later followers were faced with a seeming paradox. They described evolution as a continuous, gradual change over time, but species are distinct from each other, suggesting that some ...

In this course students will gain intensive field experience in Biological Sciences emphasizing immersion and observation in novel field settings. Students in this course will visit different ...

Biological Review of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 41, 587 (1966). Gould, S. J. Geometric Similarity in Allometric Growth: Contribution to Problem of Scaling in Evolution of Size.

In the last few decades, the evolution of sequencing technologies has revolutionized genome analysis, pushing towards the design of scalable computational approaches for the analysis of massive ...

A new biological law has been proposed offering key insights into the processes of evolution and aging. Biological laws are recognized patterns that hold true for a group of living organisms.