New studies by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology show that competition between different evolutionary developmental stages of multicellular life cycles can be important for the ...

You may not know that our ancestors hibernated during the winter months. Why did we evolve out of this biologically prolific ...

In a recent study published in the journal Genome Biology and Evolution, researchers examined the differences in circadian biology between the ancestors of modern humans and the archaic hominins such ...

Insect life-cycle polymorphism : introduction / S. Masaki and W. Wipking -- Diversity and integration of life-cycle controls in insects / H.V. Danks -- Seasonal plasticity and life-cycle adaptations ...

Earth's lifeless geology and its organic inhabitants share a surprisingly harmonious, cyclical relationship. Beneath the seafloor, rich colonies of microbes thrive within buried ocean sediment.