A new study on the evolutionary force titled "Global urban environmental change drives adaptation in white clover" in the journal Science. (From left) University of Toronto Mississauga biology ...

Humans reshape the environments where they live, with cities being among the most profoundly transformed environments on Earth. New research now shows that these urban environments are altering the ...

Humanity is driving evolution on Earth. At least, that's what a new project involving 287 scientists across 160 cities in 26 different countries has suggested. That research suggests that over the ...

Think of evolution, and you might think of Darwin's finches and natural selection. But according to researchers writing in the journal BioScience, it is not our genes that are determining our current ...

A groundbreaking study published in this week’s issue of PNAS by scientists from Israel and Ghana shows that an evolutionarily significant mutation in the human APOL1 gene arises not randomly but more ...

Increasing frequent and intense fires are shaping how species change, according to a paper published last year in the journal Trends in Ecology & Evolution. While previous research tended to focus on ...