Evolution Diary

Browsing the websites of different colleges, a prospective biology student finds an unusual statement on the page of the Department of Biological Sciences at Lehigh University. (…)

The asteroid that finished off the dinosaurs 65 million years ago opened up niches for the majority of today’s living mammals, according to a new study. (…)

Surprising genetic diversity in the descendants of a single pair
Montreal, June 20, 2007 — The team of Denis Réale, holder of the Canada Research Chair in Behavioural Ecology and Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at UQAM, recently published some remarkable research findings. (…)

A hundred years since Russian microbiologist Elie Metschnikow first discovered the invertebrate immune system, scientists are only just beginning to understand its complexity. (…)

The extinction of many large mammals at the end of the Ice Age may have packed an even bigger punch than scientists have realized. (…)