Scientists and reef managers are calling for ‘assisted evolution’ to help accelerate coral reef adaptation in the face of ...

The global road network covers close to 40 million miles, and is projected to grow by 60 percent by 2050. The field of road ecology, which has emerged over the past two decades, has looked at a ...

Evolutionary psychologists such as Gerd Gigerenzer instead see those same shortcuts as adaptive responses to uncertainty. Rather than errors, they're efficient strategies shaped by the environments in ...

Part I. Selection: Darwin and natural selection -- The group selection controversy -- For whose good does natural selection work? -- Part II. Adaptation: Darwin (and others) on biological perfection - ...

Natural selection is an important evolutionary force that enables humans to adapt to new environments and fight disease-causing pathogens. However, the unique footprints of natural selection in our ...

Climate change is rapidly altering our environment—and posing major challenges for many animal species. Whether they can adapt depends largely on their genetic diversity. An international study ...

The ongoing global climate crisis is characterized by rising mean water temperatures, thermal stress, ocean acidification, and fluctuating dissolved oxygen ...

Demographic history reconstruction suggested that additional gene flow from Altaic people influenced the northernmost Han Chinese population. Complex biological adaptation signatures associated with ...

A new paper examines the possible effects of two properties of receiver playing fields documented in studies of animal psychology -- habituation and neural adaptation -- on the efficacy of mate choice ...

The evolutionary adaptation of wolves into domesticated dogs is one of the most intriguing examples of coevolution between humans and animals. This transformation, rooted in millennia of shared ...