Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

The Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology pursues a greater understanding of earth's life processes by examining biological processes that span a continuum from single cells to entire ecosystems.

Affiliation: Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Web site: http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/

Recent articles about Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

Boning up on frogs' defenses (June 24, 2008)
Mars' water appears to have been too salty to support life (May 28, 2008)
Hauser presents theory of "humaniqueness" (February 14, 2008)
Gonzalo Giribet (November 20, 2007)
Research highlights the muscle’s many motions (November 14, 2007)
Forests, reefs, mountaintop illuminate tropical biology (October 17, 2007)
Lizards shed light on species diversity (Harvard University Gazette, October 2, 2007)
First orchid fossil puts showy blooms at some 80 million years old (Harvard University Gazette, August 29, 2007)
Can science, religion coexist in peace? (Harvard University Gazette, March 15, 2007)
Despite their heft, many dinosaurs had surprisingly tiny genomes (Harvard University Gazette, March 8, 2007)
Wilson urges alliance to save species (Harvard University Gazette, February 15, 2007)
Big brains better for birds (Harvard University Gazette, January 29, 2007)
Pressured by predators, lizards see rapid shift in natural selection (Harvard University Gazette, November 16, 2006)
Students search for Thompson Island's hoppers (Harvard University Gazette, October 19, 2006)
Spring in your step helps avert disastrous stumbles (Harvard University Gazettte, October 12, 2006)
Beetles' past tells volumes about tropical evolution (Harvard University Gazettte, July 27, 2006)
Finding a fossilized needle in an Arctic haystack (Harvard University Gazette, June 1, 2006)
Wakeley examines ancestral lines (Harvard University Gazette, April 27, 2006)
Evolution follows few possible paths to antibiotic resistance (Harvard University Gazette, April 13, 2006)
Ants are surprisingly ancient, arising 140-168 million years ago (Harvard University Gazette, April 6, 2006)

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