New research is significantly revising a widely cited evolutionary model, the Inhibitory Cascade Mode (ICM). Benjamin Auerbach, professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the ...

Amphioxus, as a basal chordate, offers an insightful window into the evolutionary origins of vertebrate development. Its embryogenesis, characterised by the formation of a notochord, neural tube and ...

1. The environment as a normal agent in producing phenotypes -- 2. How agents in the environment effect molecular changes in development -- 3. Developmental symbiosis: co-development as a strategy for ...

The evolutionary developmental biology of feathers and epidermal structures encompasses the intricate interplay of genetic regulation, biochemical signalling and mechanical forces that together drive ...

"This multi-author, six-volume work summarizes our current knowledge on the developmental biology of all major invertebrate animal phyla"--Volume 1, page [4] of cover. Vol. 1. Introduction, ...

How the life histories, diets, and other ecological features of species evolve, and how these processes affect the composition and properties of communities and ecosystems; also, how species evolve in ...

Life began on earth more than 3.5 billion years ago, but the history of humans and other vertebrates accounts for only a fraction of this timescale. Chordates (a group that includes vertebrates) and ...

How will life on Earth and the ecosystems that support it adapt to climate change? Which species will go extinct – or evolve into something new? How will microbes develop further resistance to ...

While Charles Darwin emphasized variation and historical descent, Richard Owen proposed that vertebrates are built around shared structural patterns, irrespective of their evolutionary backstory.

Erik Svensson receives funding from from the Swedish Research Council (VR; grant no. 2020-03123). How will life on Earth and the ecosystems that support it adapt to climate change? Which species will ...

Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences has officially voted to change the name of the Human Evolutionary Biology concentration during a meeting on April 1. Effective as of July 1, 2025 — when the ...

Characteristic features of plants, such as their active ingredients or flower color, may have developed through very ...