New 'Assembly Theory' unifies physics and biology to explain evolution and complexity Date: October 9, 2023 Source: Arizona State University Summary: An international team of researchers has ...

An international team of researchers has developed a new theoretical framework that bridges physics and biology to provide a unified approach for understanding how complexity and evolution emerge ...

Can selection tie evolution more closely to physics? New papers claim to link evolution to other physics, but neither really succeeds.

Game theory and economics show how to steer evolution in a better direction Date: November 16, 2021 Source: PLOS Summary: Human behavior drives the evolution of biological organisms in ways that ...

An evolutionary biologist in China has built a case against the long-reigning 'out of Africa' theory, which suggests modern humans (Homo sapiens) first arose in Africa.

Scientists are revisiting an influential theory that the evolution of big brains made human childbirth risky.

A new evolutionary theory could explain the mystery of shrinking animals A long-disputed rule in biology says bigger is better, but a new computer model illuminates why that’s not necessarily true.

Catalog : BIOL.2450 Human Evolutionary Biology BIOL.2450 — Undergraduate Id: 042462 Offering: 1 Credits: 3-3 Description What makes us human? This course is designed to examine (and celebrate!) human ...

J.B.S. Haldane, one of the founders of modern evolutionary biology theory, was reportedly asked what it would take for him to lose faith in the theory of evolution and is said to have replied ...