Evolution
The first animal model of recent human evolution reveals that a single mutation produced several traits common in East Asian peoples, from thicker...
I have been fascinated by the fact that evolution tells us that if we could journey back in time, then all of our ancestors start to merge, with some...
Ultraviolet vision evolved at least eight times in birds from a common violet sensitive ancestor finds a study published in BioMed Central's open...
One of the great problems of evolution is to understand how the major features of organisms have changed over great swaths of time. How did limbs...
What's cute and furry and has a name only a paleontologist could love?
A tiny theoretical creature dubbed the hypothetical placental mammal ancestor...
The demise of the dinosaurs is the world's ultimate whodunit. Was it a comet or asteroid impact? Volcanic eruptions? Climate change?
In an attempt...
A team of evolutionary biologists takes a fresh look at how mutually beneficial behavior in groups may have evolved as a consequence of the selfish...
There’s a wobbly new biochemical structure in Burckhard Seelig’s lab at the University of Minnesota that may resemble what enzymes looked like...
Chris Martin has bred more than 3,000 hybrid fish in his time as a graduate student in evolution and ecology at UC Davis, a pursuit that has helped...
When Charles Darwin first sketched how species evolved by natural selection, he drew what looked like a tree. The diagram started at a central point...
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