evolutionary

  1. Illustration showing two male African elephants, top, about to engage in a musth battle, and two male woolly mammoths in the water's reflection, below. Image credit: Adam Rountrey

    New tusk-analysis techniques reveal surging testosterone in male woolly mammoths

  2. U-M partners in project to create digital encyclopedia of thousands of 3-D vertebrate specimens

    U-M partners in project to create digital encyclopedia of thousands of 3-D vertebrate specimens

  3. Animal coloration research: On the threshold of a new era

    Animal coloration research: On the threshold of a new era

  4. Genetic analysis of New World birds confirms untested evolutionary assumption

    Genetic analysis of New World birds confirms untested evolutionary assumption

  5. Pattern of mammal dwarfing during ancient global warming events revealed

    Pattern of mammal dwarfing during ancient global warming events revealed

  6. 'Resurrecting' tiny lake-dwelling animals to study evolutionary responses to pollution

    ‘Resurrecting’ tiny lake-dwelling animals to study evolutionary responses to pollution

  7. U-M Block M Logo

    Revving the microbial engine: Horsepower versus fuel efficiency in bacterial genomes

  8. Dishonesty is aggressively punished in the world of paper wasps

    Dishonesty is aggressively punished in the world of paper wasps

  9. Visualizing and predicting evolution by mapping the elusive 'fitness landscape'

    Visualizing and predicting evolution by mapping the elusive ‘fitness landscape’

  10. Old-school literature search helps ecologist identify puzzling parasite

    Old-school literature search helps ecologist identify puzzling parasite

  11. U-M Block M Logo

    Michigan Society of Fellows names new members

  12. Faulty modeling studies led to overstated predictions of Ebola outbreak

    Faulty modeling studies led to overstated predictions of Ebola outbreak

  13. Predatory snails evolved diverse venoms to subdue a wide range of prey species

    Predatory snails evolved diverse venoms to subdue a wide range of prey species

  14. Consistency is the key to success in bread baking and biology

    Consistency is the key to success in bread baking and biology

  15. New app customizes animal natural history on the go

    New app customizes animal natural history on the go

  16. U-M biologist awarded 2014 Packard Fellowship

    U-M biologist awarded 2014 Packard Fellowship

  17. Evolution and venomous snakes: Diet distinguishes look-alikes on two continents

    Evolution and venomous snakes: Diet distinguishes look-alikes on two continents

  18. Long-held assumption about emergence of new species questioned

    Long-held assumption about emergence of new species questioned

  19. From obscurity to dominance: Tracking the rapid evolutionary rise of ray-finned fish

    From obscurity to dominance: Tracking the rapid evolutionary rise of ray-finned fish

  20. Living fossils? Actually, sturgeon are evolutionary speedsters

    Living fossils? Actually, sturgeon are evolutionary speedsters