From Mendel’s pea plants to the molecular magic of DNA replication, genetics is the story of how life’s blueprint is copied and passed on. Understanding how DNA stores, duplicates, and sometimes ...

Introduction : how to write history of biology -- The place of biology in the sciences and its conceptual structure -- The changing intellectual milieu of biology Diversity of life. Macrotaxonomy, the ...

Interest in cytogenetics may be traced to the development of the chromosomal theory of inheritance that emerged from efforts to provide the basis for Darwin's theory “On the origin of species by means ...

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution generated scientific debate and discussion not only in Darwin's own time, but for decades afterward. In the latter part of the nineteenth century and the until the ...

McMaster University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. McMaster University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. Human diversity did not appear to matter ...

Developed for an introductory genetics course at Duke University, the Genetics and Evolution app is a nice educational resource for new students of the subject. The app is composed of four sections.

Experiments that showed a surprising persistence of sexiness in worms reveal how much we are still learning about the rules governing heritability, epigenetics and natural selection. Playing the ...

This volume is based on the National Academy of Sciences' Colloquium on the Tempo and Mode of Evolution. The articles appearing in these pages were contributed by speakers at the colloquium and have ...