The question of why an individual would actively kill itself has been an evolutionary mystery. Death could hardly provide a fitness advantage to the dying individual. However, a new study has found ...

This release is also available in French. (March 25, 2003 – Ottawa, Ont.) -- The world's biggest fungus, discovered in Oregon's Blue Mountains in 2001, is challenging traditional notions of what ...

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Today, more than half of the human population lives in hive-like warrens called cities. Does this mean we are on the tipping point of becoming colony animals the way bees and ants did? It’s not ...

Natural history, in focusing on the individual whole organism in its environment, occupies a central position in the spectra of spatial and temporal scales appropriate to biological science. This ...

Find out what Darwin never knew. He understood that species adapt and change, but he didn't understand the actual processes that made this happen. New discoveries in the emerging science of "evo devo" ...

The world's biggest fungus, discovered in Oregon's Blue Mountains in 2001, is challenging traditional notions of what constitutes an individual. The underground fungus--estimated to be between ...