Someone once asked me “Is evolution still happening?” My brief answer was “Of course, it’s always happening.” I would have gone on to explain a bit, but the questioner turned and walked away. That ...

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

Evolution describes changes in inherited traits of populations through successive generations. To fully understand the science of ecology, one must first be able to grasp evolutionary concepts. Aa Aa ...

The concept of punctuated equilibrium was, to some, a radical new idea when it was first proposed by Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge in 1972. Now it is widely recognized as a useful model for one ...

All modern humans share DNA from two ancient populations that split 1.5 million years ago and reunited through interbreeding about 300,000 years ago. The genetic mixture is approximately 80% from one ...

Life in the wild is never constant; animals adapt quickly if they are to survive. Climate change, the reduction of habitats, ...

PART 1: THE HISTORICAL FRAMEWORK: EVOLUTION AS SCIENCE: Before Darwin -- Darwin and natural selection -- The arguments and the evidence for evolution -- PART 2: ORIGINS: THE ENORMITY OF TIME: The ...

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Researchers have shed new light on how viral evolution, population immunity, and the co-circulation of other flu viruses shape seasonal flu epidemics. Researchers have shed new light on how viral ...

Songbirds on the UCLA campus changed beak shapes during the pandemic, according to a new study. Researchers suspect it might be a case of rapid evolution.