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The 1969 "Woodstock" song by Joni Mitchell, it turns out, was onto something: “ We are stardust / billion-year-old carbon.” University of Chicago evolutionary biologist, Neil Shubin, PhD, makes that...Read more

Human nature has deep evolutionary roots and is manifested in relationships with family members, friends, romantic and business partners, competitors, and strangers more than in any other aspects of behavior...Read more

Neil Shubin , the Robert R. Bensley Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, and Pier Oddone , director of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, have been elected members of the National...Read more

Neil H. Shubin has conducted landmark research on the evolutionary origin of anatomical features of animals. He has conducted fieldwork in much of North America, including Greenland, as well as...Read more

The originator of the influential and widely debated Red Queen hypothesis, Leigh Van Valen, professor emeritus in the Department of Ecology and Evolution, died at St. Mary of Nazareth Hospital...Read more

Bill Wimsatt has never shied away from big problems. Wimsatt, Professor Emeritus in Philosophy and a member of the Committee on Evolutionary Biology and the Committee on Conceptual and Historical...Read more

Passion for fossils of mammalian ancestors leads to PhD’s prize-winning research.

Biologist Dario Maestripieri interprets DNA, environmental clues to help explain behavior of monkeys and humans.

Chicago academic ‘ecosystem’ fosters broad-based graduate training in evolutionary biology.

Since making headlines two years ago with a surprising 375-million-year-old fossil, the evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin continues to unlock the secrets of life’s formerly blurry transition from sea to land.