USC Dornsife has given four longstanding fields clearer academic identities, increasing their visibility in research and graduate education.

(Stanley45/E+/Getty Images) The basics of evolution are pretty straightforward to grasp: organisms better equipped to survive ...

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 ...

Research study reports intriguing findings made through innovative artificial intelligence analysis about yeasts -- small fungi that are key contributors to biotechnology, food production, and human ...

Why do some groups of organisms contain thousands of species while others have only a handful? Evolutionary biologists have spent decades trying to answer this question using mathematical models that ...

Charles Darwin said that evolution was constantly happening, causing animals to adapt for survival. But many of his contemporaries disagreed. If evolution is always causing things to change, they ...

The idea that universes evolve like organisms sat on the fringes of theoretical physics for decades. Then, a Substack post and a 2022 find by the James Webb Space Telescope boosted the concept ...

IntroductionWhen you hear the word "evolution," what comes to mind?Is it "becoming something better than before"?Or perhaps you imagine humans gradually changing from ape-like ancestors.There is also ...

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