In real life, mutants can arise when their DNA changes to give them an advantage over the rest of the population. A team from the University of Michigan has used simulations on the Pittsburgh ...

Evolution is complex and difficult to study, but a new software package developed by the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station offers researchers a better way to simulate how organisms change over ...

A team of natural scientists, musculoskeletal specialists, and evolutionary ... access site Current Biology, the group describes the factors they put into building their simulation and what ...

A recent study at Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at Institute of Science Tokyo has developed a theoretical model that uncovers the dual role of polyploidy—organisms carrying extra genome ...

To reach that conclusion, a team of researchers first used computer simulations on 235 teeth representing ... saber-toothed predators but also have broader implications for evolutionary biology and ...

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Essentials of Biology is a non-majors general biology course without a laboratory. The topics that will be covered include biological molecules, cell structure and function, cellular metabolism, cell ...

research associate in the Evolutionary Biology and Animal Ecology group, and doctoral student Mélanie Bey. The researchers repeatedly confronted ants with competitors from another nest.

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The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology is home to research and scholarship exploring the principles driving ecological and evolutionary processes, including molecular mechanisms, genetics, ...