Academics used to tease paleontologists, saying that while dinosaurs appeal to children, they won’t answer the important evolutionary questions.
Yale’s John Ostrom (1928-2005) proved them wrong. (more…)
UA researchers have discovered some of the changes in genes, physiology and behavior that enable a species to drastically change its lifestyle in the course of evolution
For most of us, switching to a vegetarian diet might be a matter of a New Year’s resolution and a fair amount of willpower, but for an entire species, it’s a much more involved process — one that evolutionary biologists have struggled to understand for a long time. (more…)
