F or the past century and a half, the concept of evolution has primarily been wielded by those describing change of a purely ...

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While developing his theory of natural selection, Charles Darwin was horrified by a group of wasps that lay their eggs within ...

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An analysis of a slug-eating response by naive, newborn garter snakes provides a particularly clear example of geographic variation in behavior with a genetic basis. Feeding responses were recorded ...

Abstract: Parallel phenotypic evolution, the independent evolution of the same trait in closely related lineages, is interesting because it tells us about the contribution of natural selection to ...

Alas, poor Darwin. By all rights, 2009 should be his year, as books, museums and scholarly conclaves celebrate his 200th birthday (Feb. 12) and the 150th anniversary of "On the Origin of Species" (Nov ...

More than 130 leading population geneticists are publicly condemning a book arguing that genetic variation between human populations could underlie global economic, political and social differences.