In Your Inner Fish, Shubin, Ph.D., professor and associate dean for organismal and evolutionary biology at the University of Chicago, and provost of the Field Museum, uses new fossil finds ...

In medicine and biotechnology, the ability to evolve proteins with new or improved functions is crucial, but current methods ...

Homology, Genes, and Evolutionary Innovation , by Günter P. Wagner, the Alison Richard Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Homology—a similar trait shared by different species and derived ...

Tiffany Taylor, professor of microbial ecology and evolution at the University of Bath in the U.K., recommends the books that shaped her career and her outlook on life.

In “Friendship: The Evolution, Biology, and Extraordinary Power of Life’s Fundamental Bond,” Lydia Denworth explores the growing, cross-species science of friendships — how they work and why.

Biology is comprised of a vast number of fields of study, not the least of which are evolution, genetics and natural history, which are my main focus in this collection. I ended up with 12 books ...

General biology (EBIO 1210 and 1220) These are course materials used in a two-semester general biology sequence. The course serves primarily freshmen and sophomores intending to pursue ecology and ...