Quote of the Day by Charles Darwin "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that..."

Charles Darwin was a thinker who changed how people thought about life, not by making loud claims, but by being patient, ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Earliest Known Vertebrates Had Four Eyes—and They Worked a Lot Like Ours Do, New Research Suggests

Many spine-bearing creatures, or vertebrates, have a curious bit of tissue deep in their brains called the pineal gland. It ...
eLife

Accelerated evolution in networked metapopulations of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

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

Tropical feedback loop: Butterfly mimicry patterns evolve faster near the equator

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

Butterfly Mimicry Unveils Boosted Biodiversity Cycle

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

Thought of the day by Charles Darwin: 'We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized...'

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

Evolution in Action: Marking the Anniversary of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species with Peter and Rosemary Grant

On November 24, 1859, Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species and transformed our understanding of life on Earth by introducing the scientific theory that populations evolve over the course ...
ZME Science on MSN

The Wallace Line forms an invisible barrier that keeps tigers and koalas from ever meeting. We finally know what happened

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

Weizmann Institute of Science

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

Galactic Rotation Curves Explained in the 4DEU Framework by 3D Spatial Curvature from Local Gravitational Blocking of Cosmic Expansion: No Need for Dark Matter ()

The observed near flatness of galactic rotation curves has long been interpreted as evidence for large amounts of non-baryonic dark matter. Here we show that this phenom ...

The evolutionary upside of same-sex sex among primates

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

Birds at a college changed beak shapes during the pandemic. It might be a case of rapid evolution

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.