#evolutionary-biology

Our Closest Relatives Tried Patriarchy. Only One Kept It — Smart Healthy Women

There’s a prevailing argument or belief that says male dominance is natural, that hierarchy and violence are natural, that this is how…

Behavioural Architectures and the Emergence of Strategic Games

A Conceptual Companion to A Mathematical Theory of Symbolic Selection

Viral Eukaryogenesis Hypothesis

New to this topic? A Plain Science Companion appears at the end of this article, explaining the scientific terms and concepts in accessible…

Finding Peace Through Understanding The Human Condition

My Review of Jeremy Griffith’s book ‘FREEDOM’

Two myths about the domestication of dogs

A story of competition, cooperation, friendship — and exploitation.

Cellular Memory Evolution (CME): A Hypothesis on Distributed Biological Information Processing and…

Abstract

Bronze Age biotech: The story behind the world’s first hybrid animal

Structural Stability Points: Why We Don’t Find “Half Eyes” in the Cambrian

by Claudio Bresciano

Cellular Memory and the Hidden Layer of Biological Adaptation

A systems view of how living organisms retain and reuse biological history

Life Keeps Doing Something Strange

Does life have a game plan? Are we all heading somewhere — -being driven by an invisible driver?

Born Inside the Monopoly Game (And Why We Can’t Just Quit)

Part 3 of 3 of a 4th grader’s quest for truth

The Selfish Gene: Are We Just Survival Machines?

Unpacking the startling evolutionary reality of our DNA and the ultimate human rebellion.

The Biological Rebellion: Why Your Ancient Brain Is Fighting Your Modern Life

Your body isn’t broken — it’s just stuck in a timeline that ended ten thousand years ago. Here is the biology behind your modern anxiety.

How Damaged Leaves Broadcast Airborne Warnings

Why plants emit volatile organic compounds to alert the canopy.

الفصل الثاني: التغيّر في الطبيعة

الفكر الرئيسية

*127* Structural Coherence Beyond Biological Emergence: Cellular Stability, Neuronal Continuity…

The Great Inversion of Biology: From Creation to Accessibility

The Cambrian Explosion: When Complexity Met Complexity

A Runaway Proposal

Why don’t animals evolve defenses against mosquitoes and ticks?

This is one of those obvious questions that people do not ask often enough. Mosquitoes, ticks, and other biting parasites are not just…

Why General Human Intelligence May Be Harder to Reproduce Artificially Than We Think

Before asking whether artificial general intelligence can be built, we should ask what human intelligence is actually a solution to

Meet LUCA: The Ancient Microbe You’re Related To

Here’s a weird fact to ponder on over your morning coffee. You and that coffee plant are cousins. So are you and the yeast that made your…

The Coming Collision Between AI’s Inhuman Speed and Human Biology

Francis starts his day the way many professionals do now: by asking an AI to summarize what happened while he slept.

Why Horsetails Contain Real Glass Skeletons

How ancient spore plants use mineral deposits for structural support.

The Evolutionary Paradox of Paternal Investment

Within the broader spectrum of mammalian biology, direct male investment in offspring is a statistical anomaly, occurring in fewer than 5%…

The Bacterium that ‘Played Dead’ to Survive

Written by Blain Melaku

From AlphaFold to ESM3: The Era of Programmable Biology

The biological world is governed by the Central Dogma: a 1D amino acid sequence dictates a complex 3D structure, which ultimately defines a…

How Stinging Nettles Inject Chemical Weapons

Why the hairs on these plants function like glass hypodermic needles.

The Goosecoid Relationship Between Humans, Urchins, T-Rex, and Students Who May Want to Become…

Do you know? You could study under professors at the forefront of new genetic discovery starting at the University of Cincinnati’s Blue Ash…

A Story Fossils Started

I am 17, and I am a paleo nerd, but my mom says I’m too old for it.

Kasus Biologis dari Permainan Agung

Argumen konvergensi filosofis menetapkan bahwa tiga tradisi independen sampai pada kesimpulan yang sama tentang kesejahteraan manusia…

Why Europe has almost no native monkeys

Europe looks like it should have monkeys.

Part 02 : Whale Evolution: From Land Mammals to Ocean Giants

Whale Evolution Explained: How Land Mammals Became Ocean Giants (Fossil Evidence & Adaptations)

The age of discovering giant land animals is almost over

It is not impossible that a large unknown land animal still exists somewhere. Nature is too big, forests are too dense, and human knowledge…

What life on a desert planet might be like

Desert planets are everywhere in science fiction. Tatooine in Star Wars, Arrakis in Dune, and countless other dry worlds have made us…

When Microbes Aren’t So Micro

Written by Nicole Shteynberg

*255* Biological Nutrition, Metabolic Adaptation, and the Progressive Transformation of Human…

Publications often describe the Rata topo desnuda as an animal almost “resistant to cancer” and capable of exceptional longevity. Yet from…

Title: Unity · Divergence · Evolution · Convergence — A Framework from Madagascar

I am Rindra Vahatriniaina Rakotorahalahy. I write from Antsirabe, Madagascar. No laboratory. No institution. No research team. One computer…

How do fish appear in newly formed lakes and ponds?

How fish appear in a newly formed lake or pond depends a lot on where you are in the world.

This Part of Your Eyes is Useless

What is this mysterious useless thing which you see everyday

Does being very large give an organism any evolutionary advantages?

Being very large can be an advantage, but it is never only an advantage. Size changes almost everything about an organism’s life: how it…

Mismatch Medicine

How a diabetes drug and an old idea in evolutionary biology reframe why we get sick, and why I won’t call it a cure

The Biological Kernel: Why Planetary Survival Depends on Invisible Micro-Architectures

Beyond bees and earthworms, mapping the subterranean mycelial networks, the maternal microbiome, and bacterial decomposition to low-level…

Genes, Organs, and the Energy Landscape: How a Supply Chain Planning Platform Should Configure…

Every supply chain planning vendor lives with the same paradox. The machinery is general — netting, derivation, optimization, exception…

Cancer Unveiled: Evolution, Multicellularity, and the Making of a Disease

1.3 The Major Evolutionary Transition to Multicellularity

Why females live longer than males

Female mammals usually live longer than males, and the reason is not just one thing. It is a mix of behavior, hormones, chromosomes…

Is life out there? Then why haven’t we found it? The Great Filter

Our whole lives we have been conditioned to believe that “aliens” or “extraterrestrial life” is something only one sees on the television…

A is for Anchovy

Is World Peace Possible? (part 2)

Who Are We?

How much brain does a fly have?

Scientists have mapped a bug’s brain for the first time.

The Instrumental Calibration of Reality: A Proposed ToE

Reconciling Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity through the Human Transducer

Spinoza at the Bedside

Applying Darwinian dynamics and Spinozian necessity to the limits of maximum-tolerated dose oncology.