A simple change in species composition can impact the course of evolution: A research team from the University of Bern and the University of British Columbia in Canada shows that the presence of just ...
Conservation of bird species has been a major concern for decades. However, the rate of species loss is accelerating due to ...
A new study shows evidence of “evolutionary rescue”—a kind of rapid evolution in which organisms genetically adapt to severe conditions—in monkeyflower populations found throughout western North ...
Hidden within fish DNA are powerful genetic twists that may explain one of nature’s biggest mysteries: how new species form so quickly. In Lake Malawi, hundreds of cichlid fish species evolved at ...
On Valentine’s Day in 2018, a team of scientists walked across a flat expanse in the badlands of northeastern Ethiopia, scanning the ground for fossils. An eagle-eyed field assistant, Omar Abdulla, ...
“Inversions in the Malawi cichlid adaptive radiation show supergene-like signs of adaptive evolution and repeated ...
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Jawbone fragments and teeth from a previously unknown species hint that the evolution of modern apes occurred in what's now ...
How does evolution invent entirely new things, like limbs, wings, and venom? Evolutionary biologist Sean B. Carroll joins us to reveal the hidden rules behind nature’s creativity and the genetic ...
If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...
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