In a cavernous concert hall, before an eager audience of thousands, Masatoshi Nei is experiencing a technical glitch. The biologist has just received Japan’s prestigious Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences, ...

Are humans evolving more through culture than DNA? A new study explores how medicine, technology, and institutions may guide ...

While developing his theory of natural selection, Charles Darwin was horrified by a group of wasps that lay their eggs within ...

New research suggests that natural selection, famous for rewarding advantageous differences in organisms, can also preserve similarities. The researchers worked with a plant called wild radish and its ...

Simulated from the very first principles of evolutionary science:VariationEvery creature is uniquely defined by its genes.MutationChild creatures are slightly randomly modified versions of their ...

In this first phase of this Multicellularity Long-Term Evolution Experiment (MuLTEE), the researchers started with a species called snowflake yeast. The microbes were grown in shaking incubators, and ...

Scientists have given yeast a brand new ability – gaining energy from light. The technique was remarkably easy, the team says, and could not only help us understand evolution but make better beer and ...

The second science -- Simple selection -- The genetic and ecological context of selection -- History, chance, and necessity -- The rate of genetic deterioration -- The rate of environmental ...

Insect adaptation as evidence of evolution by natural selection / by Sir Edward Poulton -- The present standing of the theory of sexual selection / by J.S. Huxley -- The genetic basis of adaptation / ...

When Risto Miikkulainen and Padmini Rajagopalan simulated hyenas forming mobs to steal prey from lions, they found something surprising. Evolutionary biologists never have enough time. Some of the ...