A link between evolution over short time frames (microevolution) and long time frames (macroevolution) that could open new approaches to understanding some of biology's deepest questions is proposed ...

Life-history traits represent organisms’ strategies to navigate the fitness trade-offs between survival and reproduction. Eric Charnov developed three dimensionless metrics to quantify fundamental ...

Paleobiology, founded to provide a forum for the greater integration of paleontology and biology, began publication in 1975. Paleobiology publishes original articles that emphasize biological or ...

In tropical climates, lizards are everywhere. It can be a bit wild to see, and they come in all shapes and sizes. They seem a tad superfluous in such large varieties leaving one to wonder, what ...

In his Science in Culture article “Dying for a drink” (Nature 438, 564; 2005), Martin Kemp outlines the ancestral line of vertebrates, from modern humans back through evolutionary history to ...