There has been a recent trend in evolutionary developmental biology ... If species are selected from a phylogenetic perspective, such studies can increase our understanding of the molecular ...

Selfishness aids survival but requires balance in society. While modern life rewards both selfish and cooperative behaviors, ...

This project addresses core issues in evolutionary theory. Jonathan Birch works on the foundational concepts introduced in the 1960s by W. D. Hamilton that changed the way we think about how social ...

So, too, did the human brain. Evolutionary psychology is the study of the ways in which the mind was shaped by pressures to survive and reproduce. Findings in this field often shed light on ...

Xenophobia can be understood as an evolutionarily ingrained response to competition for scarce resources. The irrational ...

Ecology and evolutionary biology offer a perspective on biology from the level of genes to communities of species. In the Master's Programme in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, you become familiar ...

The study, published in Science, reconstructs the family tree of mollusks and provides a genome-based perspective on their ...

And throughout the modern Judeo-Christian tradition, leaders have asserted that evolutionary science offers a valid perspective on the natural world. They say that evolution is consistent with ...

University of Connecticut evolutionary biologist Elizabeth Jockusch, who was not involved in either study but who coauthored an accompanying perspective about the “duelling models,” agrees that both ...