Long-term studies at Georgia Tech and beyond show that evolution is happening right now. They capture the rise of new species ...

Georgia Tech scientists are revealing how decades-long research programs have transformed our understanding of evolution, from laboratory petri dishes to tropical islands—along the way uncovering ...

Sometimes, the most significant scientific discoveries happen by accident. Scientists have long known that whole-genome ...

Well-informed Catholics do not see conflict between their religious beliefs and the Darwinian theory of biological evolution. In 1996, Pope John Paul II stated that the conclusions reached by ...

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 ...

Evolution is not "going somewhere"; it just describes changes in inherited traits over time. Occasionally, and perhaps inevitably, this change results in increases in biological complexity ...

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 ...

A new study co-authored by researchers at Indiana University sheds light on how the forces that shape mountain ranges also ...

The class will cover the following topics: structure and function of DNA, inheritance, molecular evolution, population and quantitative genetics, gene conservation, genomics and biotechnology.

New study shows how bird traits like gene makeup and clutch size shape evolution. This may help scientists understand ...

ciliate evolution, muscle biochemistry, mammalian reproductive ecology and the molecular biology of human parasites. The biological sciences form the foundation of a number of academic disciplines at ...

Where are we going? These are some of the big questions biological anthropology seeks to answer, using the principles of evolution as a backdrop for formulating and testing hypotheses about ...