5 stories tagged evolutionary-biology, newest first.
57 points by marojejian | 9 comments
Quanta Magazine 'The Joy of Why' episode in which biologist Toby Kiers explains how fungal networks trade nutrients with plants and store carbon underground.
76 points by gmays | 16 comments
University of Essex news release reporting research on how butterflies use optical illusions in their wing patterns to evade predators.
454 points by sampo | 146 comments
Smithsonian magazine article on Iberian harvester ant queens that lay eggs hatching into both their own species and builder harvester ants, seemingly by cloning males.
320 points by ohjeez | 225 comments
A SubAnima article explaining at several levels of explanation why honeybees die after stinging, framed around Feynman's point about 'why' questions.
599 points by mailyk | 371 comments
An Asimov Press opinion essay by Liyam Chitayat arguing that mitochondria should be considered alive, drawing on Lynn Margulis's endosymbiosis theory.