The Wallace Line divides species in Southeast Asia. A deep ocean trench prevents animal migration. Even flying birds rarely ...

All animal evolution for the last half billion years has come from tinkering with these Cambrian body plans. Then, between about 570 and 530 million years ago, another burst of diversification ...

how would a scientist figure out evolutionary relationships between sharks, dolphins and wolves? Two fishy-looking animals and a four-legged, furry one. First we need to find the ancestral line ...

even though the organism separated from animal’s evolutionary line a billion years ago. While this similar process suggests that animals inherited their own version of the ability from their ...

Riley Black’s new book, When the Earth was Green, uses the latest research to envision the ancient worlds of our favorite prehistoric animals.

These findings challenge the traditional view of brain evolution and demonstrate that, while ... Less, but More: A New Evolutionary Scenario Marked by Massive Gene Loss and Expansion Feb. 10 ...

The Animal Evolutionary Ecology group offers a variety of courses for Bachelor and Master students. In the third/fifth semester of the Bachelor's programme we are responsible for the lecture ...

Mutations are transmitted from generation to generation in the germ cell line of sexually ... life history and molecular evolutionary rates are from plant and animal genomes.