Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

About Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Proceedings B is the Royal Society’s flagship biological research journal, accepting original articles and reviews of outstanding scientific importance and broad general interest. The main criteria for acceptance are that a study is novel, and has general significance to biologists. Articles published cover the breadth of the biological sciences; many but not all articles have direct relevance to organisms and the environments in which they live.

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10 Sep 2026
Hokkaido University
In addition to shrinking and regrowing, shrew skulls change shape with the seasons.
An urban Eurasian red squirrel and the novel food-extraction task in Tsuda Park at Obihiro
30 Mar 2021
Hokkaido University
Human disturbance in urban environments makes some squirrels fail, but others perform better in novel problem-solving.
07 Oct 2020
Tohoku University
Adaptive radiation - the rapid evolution of many new species from a single ancestor - is a major focus in evolutionary biology. Adaptive radiations often show remarkable repeatability where lineages have undergone multiple episodes of adaptive radiation in distant places and at various points in time - implying their extraordinary evolutionary potential.