Termites did not evolve complex societies by adding new genetic features. Instead, scientists found that they became more ...

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

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

A QUT-led study has found how increasing aridity and habitat variation and the subsequent emergence of grasslands shaped the evolution of modern kangaroos and wallabies. The study, published in ...

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

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

A new study demonstrates the first known correlation between latitude and the rate of mimicry evolution in butterflies, consistent with a longstanding theory of biodiversity that can trace its origin ...

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

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

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

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

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