Most psychology begins with a distinction between organism and environment, where the two are implicitly (and sometimes explicitly) conceptualized as flipsides of a skin-severed space. This paper ...

The concept of an ecological niche (econiche) has been used in a variety of ways, some of which are incompatible with a relational or functional interpretation of the term. This essay seeks to ...

Learn the difference between habitat and ecosystem, their definitions, examples, and key features. Understand how species live and interact in their environment.

Gene drive organisms (GDOs) have been suggested as an approach to solve some of the most pressing environmental and public health issues. Currently, it remains unclear what kind of regulations are to ...

An important contributor to the differences between individuals derives from their plasticity. Such plasticity is widespread in organisms from the simple to the most complex. Adaptability plasticity ...

Researchers from the Complexity Science Hub and Santa Fe Institute have created a mathematical model to calculate the ideal pace at which organisms should learn, based on environmental change and life ...

They thrive without oxygen, growing in salty, alkaline conditions, and may offer insights into what kinds of life might survive on Mars. They're a new species of organism, isolated by scientists ...

Living things from bacteria to humans change their environment, but the consequences for evolution and ecology are only now being understood, or so the ‘niche constructivists’ claim. Dan Jones ...