Most of us know that as living things evolve, they take on traits that help them thrive in their home environments. But how are certain traits "chosen" for future generations, and how are others cast ...

Natural selection, the evolutionary process that guides which traits become more common in a population, has been acting on us for the past 3,000 years, right up to the modern day, new research ...

The peppered moth is an iconic example of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. For centuries peppered moths (Biston betularia) were common in the forests around Manchester, ...

A female pollinating wasp, Platyscapa awekei, which pollinates the Wonderboom fig, a famous fig tree in South Africa. Simon van Noort In his 1859 book, On the Origin of Species, British naturalist ...

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 natural populations, the mechanisms of evolution do not act in isolation. This is crucially important to conservation geneticists, who grapple with the implications of these evolutionary processes ...

Tom has a master’s degree in biochemistry from the University of Oxford and his interests range from immunology and microscopy to the philosophy of science.View full profile Tom has a master’s degree ...

When humans started farming around 10,000 years ago, they reshaped their landscapes, diets, and social structures. A common assumption in evolutionary biology held that those cultural changes acted as ...

Some of nature's mysteries have kept scientists busy for decades—for example, the processes that drive evolution. The question of whether certain differences between and within species are caused by ...

Natural selection can reverse evolution that occurs through sexual selection and this can lead to better females, new research shows. Natural selection can reverse evolution that occurs through sexual ...

Researchers believe the trait is an adaptation to counter the females’ post-coital hunger. I’m not sure if lizards can experience PTSD, but if they can, I have every reason to believe this science ...