Evolution takes many forms. Sometimes, species can influence each other’s evolution. This is known as coevolution. Discover how coevolution works, who discovered this phenomenon and examples of it ...
The Indigenous peoples of the Bolivian highlands are survivors. For thousands of years they have lived at altitudes of more than two miles, where oxygen is about 35 percent lower than at sea level.
In 2017, unprecedented rainfall from Hurricane Harvey caused local extinctions of populations of soapberry bugs. This allowed researchers from Rice University and UC Davis to observe evolution at work ...
New research suggests that natural selection, famous for rewarding advantageous differences in organisms, can also preserve similarities. The researchers worked with a plant called wild radish and its ...
In the 1800s, a conflict between the founding fathers of evolution divided the community. Charles Darwin believed sexual selection drove the variation in butterfly colors and patterns of males, while ...
A strange tiny species of crustacean has challenged the way we think about natural selection and evolution. This microscopic animal, known as a water flea or Daphnia pulex, generates genetic variation ...
A sweeping new review of five decades of scientific literature finds robust evidence that natural selection operates simultaneously across multiple ...
Introduction. Definition of natural selection ; Relationship to genetic drift and evolution ; Restricted meanings of "natural selection" ; Modes of selection ; Summary -- Philosophical comments.