Evidence of natural selection for specific epigenetic variants within the womb has been identified, challenging preconceptions of prenatal DNA methylation. Recent research conducted in a multinational ...

A surprising study on the behavior of unrelated lizards in very different parts of the world has demonstrated how evolution can lead to different species learning the same skills. The study documents ...

Researchers of the Hubei University of Medicine, China, have analyzed several mutations in different variants of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) from mammal species that ...

Evolution is an ongoing process, although many don’t realize people are still evolving. It’s true that Homo sapiens look very different than Australopithecus afarensis, an early hominin that lived ...

The unexpected discovery of a new type of genetic variation suggests that natural selection -- the force that drives evolution -- is both more powerful and more complex than scientists have thought.

Inferring the causes for change in the fossil record has been a persistent problem in evolutionary biology. Three independent lines of evidence indicate that a lineage of the fossil stickleback fish ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/2411347 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/2411347 Copy URL Muller (1942) and Mayr (1963) hypothesized that natural selection indirectly causes ...

Our team of behavioural ecologists found that the behaviour of certain fig wasps, long considered textbook examples of precise adaptation, is far from perfect. Previous research on fig wasps, but ...

Why does the peacock have such an elaborate tail? This cumbersome trait significantly decreases the male's chances of survival. It only exists because it confers an advantage to its bearer in the form ...

Most of us know that as living things evolve, they take on traits that help them thrive in their home environments. But how ...