Charles Darwin, a pivotal British naturalist, revolutionized our understanding of the natural world with his theory of ...

Centralized migration accelerates adaptation and drives parallel evolution, emphasizing the key influence of spatial organization on evolutionary dynamics across systems from pathogen transmission to ...

Key pointsScientists constructed a family tree for butterflies in the genus Adelpha, which are native to North and South America and display ...

In the 19th century, Alfred Russel Wallace (famous for coming up with his own theory of evolution by natural selection, ...

In the early 1990s, Keith Willmott and a friend, both undergraduate students from the United Kingdom, arrived in Ecuador with ...

As animals go about their lives ― eating, fighting, having babies ― they don’t always follow the script laid out for them by ...

The chin is one of our most familiar features, yet scientists still debate why we evolved it. Here’s a breakdown of what we ...

A tiny tropical flower is challenging a longstanding model for plant evolution. According to researchers at the Field Museum ...

Songbirds on the UCLA campus changed beak shapes during the pandemic, according to a new study. Researchers suspect it might be a case of rapid evolution.

In his book ‘The Theory of Everything Else,’ comedian and writer Dan Schreiber compiles the craziest (and, in some cases, the ...

Weizmann Institute molecular geneticist discovers what makes humans ‘tick’ and causes disruptions during menstruation, ...

A George Mason University (GMU) biologist proposed an alternate theory of how the common cuckoo bird mimics other birds’ egg ...