Scientists have shown that evolution has been using the same genetic "cheat sheet" for over 120 million years, suggesting ...

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

As global warming accelerates, extreme heat waves are causing widespread death of tropical reef corals. Most corals rely on ...

The evolutionary case for eating meat is etched into human anatomy — but so is the case against it. The science deserves more ...

As you may have heard via a barrage of internet memes, evolution can't get enough of crab-like forms. The body shape of crabs ...

Eva Jablonka is a professor emerita at the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University, Israel. Evolution Evolving: The Developmental Origins of Adaptation ...

The islands are volcanic in origin and were never attached to any continent. Galápagos wildlife arrived by flying, floating or swimming. Birds might have flown there by accident and decided to settle ...

Environmental change doesn’t affect evolution in a single, predictable way. In large-scale computer simulations, scientists discovered that some fluctuating conditions help populations evolve higher ...