When most people think about natural selection, they imagine individuals competing with one another: The fastest animal ...

We humans have long viewed ourselves as the pinnacle of evolution. People label other species as “primitive” or “ancient” and ...

Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection transformed biology and continues to guide modern science, from ...

Researchers have shed new light on the features that enable tree-dwelling mammals to move effectively through their ...

Group Selection Was Debated For Decades. A New Review Says The Empirical Case Is Far Stronger Than Critics Claimed. In A Nutshell A new review of nearly 3,000 scientific papers found 280 studies ...

Life’s story may stretch further back than scientists once thought. Some genes found in nearly every organism today were already duplicated before all life shared a common ancestor. By tracking these ...

Scientists and institutions present findings on evolution, genetics, and neuroscience, underscoring active research areas ...

A new study from Caltech explores the remarkable way a SoCal beetle infiltrates the colonies of the ant that runs the show in ...

When you look out across a snowy winter landscape, it might seem like nature is fast asleep. Yet, under the surface, tiny ...

Scientists call this speck LUCA — the Last Universal Common Ancestor. Since the concept of LUCA first emerged, it has ...

Why Information, Not Matter, May Be the True Foundation of Reality - Rethinking Reality Through Physics, Information, ...