Our modern vision evolved from an ancient one-eyed worm creature The now extinct worm-like animal first lost paired eyes, then re-evolved them.

Our modern vision evolved from an ancient one-eyed worm creature

#evolution #evolutionarybiology

theconversation.com/our-modern-vision-evolve...

Stellenanzeigen - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Webseiten der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

⏳Duration: 3 years
🛫​Start: June–Sept 2026
🎯​Focus: Wnt signaling, comparative transcriptomics & novel GRN tools
📅​Deadline: April 14th
​Details&application here:
🔗 www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht...
#Postdoc #Bioinformatics #Genomics #EvolutionaryBiology @uni-goettingen.de @goettingen-campus.de

Why Human Language Evolved to Make Us Funnier, Not Just Friendlier Key Takeaways Ljiljana Progovac's analysis proposes that human language evolved partly due to sexual selection, emphasizing wit and verbal competition.

Why Human Language Evolved to Make Us Funnier, Not Just Friendlier #Science #Biology #EvolutionaryBiology #LanguageEvolution #HumorScience #HumanInteraction

scienceblog.com/why-human-language-evolv...

🔬 UCC Microbiology Seminar
Thurs 2 Apr, 13:00 — Dr. Siobhan O’Brien (TCD) on
“Ecological & evolutionary impacts of multiple stressors on soil microbial communities.”
📍 C_PHARM_LG51 (In‑person)
#Microbiology #SoilEcology #MicrobialEcology #EvolutionaryBiology #UCC #ResearchSeminar #AcademicEvents

Are Humans Naturally Violent? Scientists Challenge Long-Held Assumptions Mild aggression and lethal violence evolved separately, according to research across 100 primate species. The study challenges the idea that everyday conflict leads to deadly outcomes.

Are Humans Naturally Violent? Scientists Challenge Long-Held Assumptions #Science #Biology #EvolutionaryBiology #HumanBehavior #Violence #EvolutionaryScience

scitechdaily.com/are-humans-naturally-vio...

For years, scientists could only prove that DOGS existed for 10,000 years — until now A new study genetically shows dogs existed almost 5,000 years earlier than scientists could prove.

For years, scientists could only prove that DOGS existed for 10,000 years — until now #Science #Biology #EvolutionaryBiology #Dogs #FossilRecord #Evolution

www.npr.org/2026/03/30/nx-s1-5758094...

Flier for an author event featuring Karuna Das at Stay Gold Books on Thursday, April 2 at 7 PM.

Re-release celebration for my award-winning novels! Thursday, April 2, 7 PM, Regent Square neighborhood of Pittsburgh!

#authorlife #writingcommunity #bookrelease #scifi #scifibooks #visionaryfiction #lgbtqfiction #newadultfiction #consciousness #evolutionarybiology #psychedelics #spiritualawakening

Going to come right out and say something to see if anyone else has the same experience.

I do not hear whale songs and think, "That's calming."

I think either "That's pure sadness" or "That's scaring the hell out of me."

Anyone else?

#Whales #EvolutionaryBiology #TheMind

Explanation for why we don't see two-foot-long dragonflies anymore fails Breathing capacity could have compensated for lower atmospheric oxygen.

Explanation for why we don't see two-foot-long dragonflies anymore fails #Science #Biology #EvolutionaryBiology #ExtinctSpecies #Paleontology #Evolution

arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/leading-...

Scientists Discover New “Magic Mushroom” Species That Rewrites Evolutionary History A familiar “magic mushroom” may not be what it seems. A decades-long mystery surrounding the origins of the world’s most widely cultivated “magic mushroom” - Psilocybe cubensis - may finally be settled. New research suggests its evolutionary story is far older and more complex than scientists once

Scientists Discover New “Magic Mushroom” Species That Rewrites Evolutionary History #Science #Biology #EvolutionaryBiology #MagicMushrooms #Evolution #Biodiversity

scitechdaily.com/scientists-discover-new-...

Some Birds May Have Evolved An Invisible Color Trick To Manage Heat Scientists found some birds may manage heat using invisible infrared feather traits, revealing a hidden layer of climate adaptation.

Some Birds May Have Evolved An Invisible Color Trick To Manage Heat #Science #Biology #EvolutionaryBiology #BirdAdaptations #HeatManagement #EvolutionaryTricks

studyfinds.com/birds-may-have-evolved-i...

Explore the #MorphoBank project “Osteohistological insight into the growth dynamics of early dinosaurs and their contemporaries” 🧪

On MorphoBank ▶️ bit.ly/4dLR5P8

In PLOS ONE ▶️ bit.ly/4v0Ggz6

#fossil #fossilfriday #ecology #evolutionarybiology #biology #archaeology @plosone.org #scisky

Rethinking same-sex sexual behavior: From sensory error to social function | PNAS Rethinking same-sex sexual behavior: From sensory error to social function

Excited to share my new commentary in PNAS—and technically the first publication from the lab! 🎉

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

#AnimalBehaviour #EvolutionaryBiology #Ecology #BehavioralEcology
@pnas.org

This Ancient Ape Fossil Could Change Where Humans Came From A fossil from Egypt hints we’ve been searching for humanity’s ape ancestors in the wrong place. Researchers say a newly uncovered fossil ape from northern Egypt is changing how scientists think about early hominoid evolution. The discovery points to northern Africa, rather than the more commonly

This Ancient Ape Fossil Could Change Where Humans Came From #Science #Biology #EvolutionaryBiology #AncientApe #HumanOrigins #FossilDiscovery

scitechdaily.com/this-ancient-ape-fossil-...

Modern apes may have actually evolved in North Africa or the Middle East Fossil jaw remains found in Egypt suggest that the earliest modern apes evolved in North Africa, not in East Africa where most fossils have been found.

Early apes may not have evolved in East Africa #Science #Biology #EvolutionaryBiology #EarlyApeEvolution #Paleontology

www.sciencenews.org/article/early-apes-not-e...

“Hulk Lizards” Are Wiping Out Millions of Years of Evolution A dominant “Hulk” lizard morph is wiping out other color variants, demonstrating how fast evolutionary balance can collapse.

“Hulk Lizards” Are Wiping Out Millions of Years of Evolution #Science #Biology #EvolutionaryBiology #HulkLizards #Evolution #Biodiversity

scitechdaily.com/hulk-lizards-are-wiping-...

Limited directional selection but coevolutionary signals among imprinted genes in A. lyrata Le veve, Audrey1  ; Iltas, Ömer2 ; Dutheil, Julien3 ; Lafon Placette, Clement4 1IHPE, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, IFREMER, Univ Perpignan Via Domitia, Perpignan, France2Max Planck Institute of Molecular…

Now published in Peer Community Journal, #evolutionarybiology section: Limited directional selection but coevolutionary signals among imprinted genes in A. lyrata

Howdy!

Join us on March 27 for another Friday Seminar!

📅 Friday, March 27
📍 WFES 411 or Zoom: linktr.ee/tamu_eccb
🕛 12:00 - 1:00 PM

We hope to see you there!

#TAMUECCB #Seminar #Ecology #EvolutionaryBiology #HumanEcosystem

Fascinating insights shared by @plosbiology.org on tunicate evolution, highlighting embryogenesis in Thaliacea and the transition back to mobility.

Explore related biological sciences research on SciOpen:
🔗 www.sciopen.com/journal/0327...

#EvolutionaryBiology #MarineBiology #SciOpen #TUP 🌐🧪🧬

The effect of gene tree dependence on summary methods for species tree inference He, Wanting1 ; Scornavacca, Celine2 ; Chan, Yao-ban1  1School of Mathematics and Statistics/Melbourne Integrative Genomics, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia2Institut des…

Now published in Peer Community Journal, #evolutionarybiology section: The effect of gene tree dependence on summary methods for species tree inference

Sex-limited experimental evolution, mating, and sexual conflict in a hermaphrodite Abstract. Sexual selection in simultaneous hermaphrodites can act through male–male competition and female choice, often favouring male-biased traits, yet

Finally, this paper is out (in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society)! 🥳
#EvolutionaryBiology #SexualSelection #ExperimentalEvolution #Reproduction #OUP
Sex-limited experimental evolution, mating, and sexual conflict in a hermaphrodite url: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

Can #Evolution Explain Human #Morality?

#PhilosophyOfBiology #Altruism #Ethics #Psychology #evolutionarybiology #behavior #helpful

ft #ELLIOTSOBER
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnwv...

Create projects, archive data, use #phylogenetic analyses tools, and read for free on MorphoBank's newly updated #opensource platform. 🧪

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#ecology #evolutionarybiology #biology #archaeology #openaccess #diamondoa #openscience

Global experiment supports Darwin's century-old hunch about auditory aesthetics Charles Darwin suspected that humans and animals share similar aesthetic tastes. A new citizen science experiment supports this hypothesis, showing that people strongly prefer the exact same acoustic patterns that attract female animals.

Global experiment supports Darwin’s century-old hunch about auditory aesthetics #Science #Biology #EvolutionaryBiology #Darwin #AuditoryAesthetics #EvolutionaryScience

www.psypost.org/global-experiment-suppor...

Original post on ecoevo.social

Evolutionary biology colleagues: please consider to submit a title and Abstract suggestion to our forthcoming theme issue in "Methods in Ecology & Evolution" on time-dependency in micro- and macroevolutionary rates […]

University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent

🔥 New Paper out 🔥

How do genomes give rise to the diversity of life we see around us?

#EvolutionaryBiology #Genomics #EvoDevo #microRNA #Evolution #SystemsBiology

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

The Jellies That Evolved a Different Way To Keep Time | Quanta Magazine Off the coast of Japan, biologists netted a pea-size jellyfish with an unusual circadian clock — a chance finding that suggests there are likely more overlooked biological timekeeping mechanisms to be discovered.

The Jellies That Evolved a Different Way To Keep Time #Science #Biology #EvolutionaryBiology #Jellyfish #Evolution #MarineLife

www.quantamagazine.org/the-jellies-that-evolved...

What animal are you? Humans and animals tend to like the same mating calls Whether it’s a canary’s chirp or a treefrog’s croak, humans tend to prefer many of the same sounds that animals do themselves, a new study finds

What animal are you? Humans and animals tend to like the same mating calls #Science #Biology #Zoology #AnimalBehavior #MatingCalls #EvolutionaryBiology

www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-animal-are-...

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Preeclampsia May Have Shaped the Fate of Neanderthals and Given Homo sapiens an Edge #Science #Biology #EvolutionaryBiology #Neanderthals #Preeclampsia #HumanEvolution

www.discovermagazine.com/preeclampsia-may-have-sh...

The ultimate illustrated guide to elephants and their prehistoric relatives.

Elephants and Their Fossil Relatives by Asier Larramendi and Marco P. Ferretti is now available!

Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

#Elephants #Paleontology #EvolutionaryBiology #History