Evolution

The researchers have identified genes involved in hybrid incompatibility, a phenomenon that raises reproductive barriers between species and evolutionarily splits them apart.

A course on chili peppers covers history, anthropology, biology, and culture, and includes a visit to a specialty pepper farm in East Palo Alto.

If all the games in a single-elimination sports tournament are played sequentially in the same arena, in how many possible sequences can the games be played?

Finding by Stanford researchers supports the concept of progressive evolution in nature

The CEHG founding co-director and Stanford professor of biology receives the 2022 Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE) Lifetime Achievement Award

A century of attentive groundskeeping has turned the Stanford campus into a museum of mathematical phylogenetics, says Noah Rosenberg, creator of the Stanford X-Tree Project

Marc Feldman's group offers a theoretical model to capture the movement of fads and tradition in a population

A new look at 14,000 genetic changes since our most recent ancestors shows that differences in gene activation– not just genetic code– may underlie evolution of the brain and voice

A new study in Molecular Biology and Evolution from Liz Hadly's group at Stanford and others reveals the lasting genetic impacts of increased isolation among different tiger popula

Biology Professor Marcus Feldman is a pioneer in the field of cultural evolution and has worked on diverse topics, including fertility control in China, the evolution of language a

This article features CEHG-funded research, our Co-Founding Director Marcus Feldman, and community members Oren Kolodny and Nicole Creanza.

Bursts of cultural advance are usually assumed to result from climate or biological changes. A new theory digs into how humans innovate, and suggests such bursts could be the re...