When Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, he suggested that traits could be inherited, and that natural selection could affect which traits were passed down. Around the same time ...

Expanding the modern synthesis requires elevating the role of interaction within and across various biological scales to the status of an evolutionary principle. One way to do this is to characterize ...

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution generated scientific debate and discussion not only in Darwin's own time, but for decades afterward. In the latter part of the nineteenth century and the until the ...

The first public lecture I attended as a new graduate student at the University of Chicago in 1965 was by the evolutionary biologist Richard Lewontin, who died on July 4 at age 92. Its subject was ...

Koepfli, Klaus-Peter and Gooley, Rebecca M. 2020. "A Modern Synthesis of Mammal Conservation Genetics." In Conservation Genetics in Mammals. Orgega, Jorge and ...

In the cover photo, nature photographer Andreas Kay has captured one of the most striking examples of Batesian Mimicry in nature--first reported by Henry Walter Bates in 1861. If you thought you were ...