When our distant ancestors first traded nomadic life for farming, villages, and permanent homes, you might assume that the beastly forces of natural selection lost their ability to shape our species, ...

Darwin’s core idea: Natural selection explains how traits that improve survival and reproduction spread over generations, ...

"Survival of the fittest" is the catch phrase of evolution by natural selection. While natural selection favors the most fit organisms around, evolutionary biologists have long wondered whether this ...

Does the theory of natural selection undermine the view that ethic can be objective? Dr. David Gordon, in this week’s Friday ...

When most people think about natural selection, they imagine individuals competing with one another: The fastest animal escapes predators, the strongest plant produces more seeds, and the most ...

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 ...

It turns out where certain desert shrubs grow matters a lot — especially when it comes to making sure they don’t all end up looking the same. FIU assistant professor in the Institute of Environment ...

In a recent study, scientists have demonstrated a link between individual variation in risk-taking behavior and survival of animals in changing environments. For more than a century, scientists have ...