Historical Biology is an international peer reviewed journal publishing original research and review papers covering developments in the sciences concerned with the history of life through geological time and the biology of past organisms, and seeks to encourage a diversity of approaches in this rapidly expanding field, especially new technologies. It emphasizes modern and controversial topics and prides itself in fast review and rapid online publication. The range of subjects includes:paleobiology and taxonomy,paleobiogeography,evolutionary processes and patterns,molecular paleontology,extinction,taphonomy.

《歷史生物學》是一份國際同行評議期刊，發表原創研究和評議論文，內容涵蓋地質時代生命歷史科學和過去有機體生物學的發展，旨在鼓勵在這一迅速擴展的領域，特別是新技術，采取多種多樣的方法。它強調現代和有爭議的話題，并以快速評論和快速在線出版為榮。課程范圍包括:古生物學和分類,古生物地理學,進化過程和模式，分子古生物學,滅絕,埋葬學。