A single thermal performance curve applies across life, from bacteria to animals. Species differ in optimal temperatures, but ...

A new biological law has been proposed offering key insights into the processes of evolution and aging. Biological laws are recognized patterns that hold true for a group of living organisms. For ...

The conservation of genome regulatory elements over long periods of evolution is not limited to vertebrates, as previously ...

A paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution finds that the relatively high rate of autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in the past. The paper is titled "A general ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Following vocal criticism of an initial revision to Iowa’s science education standards that stripped ...

Introduction : how to write history of biology -- The place of biology in the sciences and its conceptual structure -- The changing intellectual milieu of biology Diversity of life. Macrotaxonomy, the ...