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A form of glioma, a type of brain cancer, tends to progress toward greater malignancy due to an increasing tendency of glioma ...

Why humans have a philtrum, the groove above your lip, explained by an evolutionary biologist — from embryonic face-building to vestigial anatomy.

New research challenges the idea that self-fertilization is an evolutionary dead end and points to a more complex story.

Reproductive biology, human behavior, and economic incentives explain many of the disparities attributed to systemic ...

The Hopkins Blue Jay has proved a miracle of evolutionary biology—these photos trace the beloved mascot's iterations over the ...

A new study in PLOS Biology of 133 species of flies, mosquitoes and their relatives shows that most species fly in ...

Genes associated with male reproductive biology appear to be under relaxed selective constraint in a primate species with low sperm competition.