Evolution seems to follow a script more often than expected. Researchers found that distantly related butterflies and moths ...

What happens when natural selection, the most powerful process driving change in the living world, shapes artificial ...

The new study challenges the long-held view of evolution as a purely random or chaotic process, suggesting instead that ...

Biologists are closing in on a puzzle that seems to turn classic evolutionary logic inside out, yet may be so common that it deserves to be called a new rule of life. Instead of always purging harmful ...

Galápagos plants show repeated evolution and emerging species, emphasizing evolution’s flexibility and active role today.

New research is significantly revising a widely cited evolutionary model, the Inhibitory Cascade Mode (ICM). Benjamin Auerbach, professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the ...

Hungarian and Belgian researchers are drawing attention to the risks of the future of AI, and evolutionary biology may help ...

In this computer simulation of a self-replicating structure, the pink square represents the signal to degrade the connection between the "parent" structure (left) and its "offspring" (right). This ...

Why does natural selection appear to happen slowly on long timescales and quickly on short ones? A multigenerational study of four lizard species addresses biology’s “paradox of stasis.” James Stroud ...

The evolution of eukaryotic cells represents one of the most pivotal transitions in the history of life, marked by the emergence of cellular compartmentalisation and increased complexity. Central to ...