When most people think about natural selection, they imagine individuals competing with one another: The fastest animal escapes predators, the strongest plant produces more seeds, and the most ...

Born in 1809, Charles Darwin proposed the theory of natural selection and helped set the foundation for how modern scientists ...

Paleobiologist Geerat Vermeij is enthralled with mollusks. Their shells line the surfaces and fill the cabinets and drawers ...

New research challenges the one-level view of evolution, showing natural selection works on individuals and groups together.

Part II dives deeper into how Pokémon might survive, compete, and evolve. Natural selection changes everything. 🧬 ...

Group Selection Was Debated For Decades. A New Review Says The Empirical Case Is Far Stronger Than Critics Claimed. In A ...

Geneticist and entrepreneur Adrian Woolfson argues that genome engineering and AI will let us design organisms beyond ...

To improve their chances of survival, animals must learn – and that can be dangerous. A new study from the University of Würzburg shows how gradual learning under parental supervision can reduce these ...

Geneticists have a better understanding of how prehistoric pairings unfolded, with new research suggesting they were mostly ...

The human chin is uniquely human, and the assumption has always been that it must have evolved for a specific purpose, perhaps to strengthen the jaw during chewing or speech. After all, chimpanzees ...

Researchers at Vilnius University (Lithuania) have uncovered how the bacterial protein Cas9, better known as the CRISPR-Cas ...

Thin stretches of the human X chromosome look oddly empty when you scan for Neanderthal DNA. Geneticists even have a name for ...