[1] The journal's founder was Prof Osvaldo Polimanti who was a physician and physiologist and was elected to the Faculty of Physiology at the University of Perugia in December 1913.

In particular, the problems of evolutionary theory are discussed and the possibility of relative mathematical modelling is examined.

Historical, philosophical and other chemical and physical subjects linked to biology are also accepted.

The current editor in chief is Professor David Lambert of Griffith University Department of Evolution.

Members of the editorial board have included Paolo Freguglia, Lev Beloussov, Eva Jablonka, Marcello Buiatti and Peter Saunders.