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The nature of innovation

Marine scientist Kelsi Rutledge explores new possibilities for…

What wolves’ teeth reveal about their lives

UCLA evolutionary biologist Blaire Van Valkenburgh has spent…
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UCLA biology professor uses superheroes to help students sift fact from fiction

While Shane Campbell-Staton was working on his dissertation…

Technique from biology helps explain the evolution of the American car

Borrowing a technique that biologists might use to study the…

Blaire Van Valkenburgh appointed Inaugural Donald R. Dickey Chair in Vertebrate Biology

Professor Blaire Van Valkenburgh, an internationally renown…

Foxes on one of California’s Channel Islands have least genetic variation of all wild animals

UCLA biologists report in a new study that a species of foxes…

Dog domestication may have increased harmful genetic changes, UCLA biologists report

Domesticating dogs from gray wolves more than 15,000 years ago…

Why are some wild animals more tolerant to human interaction than others?

Over time, some species become more tolerant of humans’ presence,…

UCLA’s Bird Genoscape Project to aid conservation efforts for North American birds threatened by climate change

UCLA researchers announced today the Bird Genoscape Project,…