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 ...

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 ...

Should a beehive be viewed as a collection of individual organisms, or a single organism unto itself? Or both? Over the last several days I've written about the proposition that evolution can't be ...

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" ...

When you see a dominant trait, the underlying genetic make-up can still be ambiguous. See how researchers use test crosses to find out the genotype behind the phenotype. The test cross is another ...

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 ...

Earth's population is estimated to be roughly 8 billion people, according to the United Nations. Depending on body size and thus the surface area of skin, a person could have more than 8 billion ...

Whether it is a microbe, a rose, or a dolphin, any form of life gets its building and operating instructions from the molecule of life, DNA. DNA comprises the genes and chromosomes that govern the ...

Individual organisms in a community interact in many different ways. An interaction may benefit both individuals, or the interaction may benefit one organism to the detriment of the other. An ...

(Rachel Sussman) In 2004, Rachel Sussman, a Brooklyn-based photographer who is a mere 37 years old, visited a Japanese cedar rumored to be 7,000 years old. Imbued with a sense of the fragility and ...