Scientists discovered complex life may have started 1.5 billion years earlier than previously thought thanks to phosphorus.

Astronomers have found possible chemical signs of life on a distant planet outside our solar system, though they caution more ...

The B.S. in molecular biology at UW provides students with an opportunity to learn about the science of life at multiple levels, from the innerworkings of single cells to those of complex organisms.

Understanding the material basis of adaptive evolution has been a central goal in biology dating back to at least the time of ...

Scientists report adaptive divergence in cryptic color pattern is underlain by two distinct, complex chromosomal rearrangements, where millions of bases of DNA were flipped backwards and moved from ...

How did the complex organisms on Earth arise? This is one of the big open questions in biology. A collaboration between the working groups of Christa Schleper at the University of Vienna and ...

Cells can then be organized into tissues, which form organs, and organs can be grouped into organ systems, which are built into entire organisms ... levels are more complex and demonstrate ...

Fossils of the simplest organisms are found in the oldest rocks, and fossils of more complex organisms in the newest rocks. This supports Darwin's theory of evolution, which states that simple ...