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 ...

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

Translation of L'évolution du vivant. An introduction to the study of evolution : General observations on the living world ; Biological evolution and its occurrences ; Interpretation of evolutionary ...

Evolution is traditionally associated with a process of increasing complexity and gaining new genes. However, the explosion of the genomic era shows that gene loss and simplification is a much more ...

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis ...

Every organism responds to the world with an intricate cascade of biochemistry. There’s a source of heat here, a faint scent of food there, or the crack of a twig as something moves nearby. Each ...

Erik Svensson receives funding from from the Swedish Research Council (VR; grant no. 2020-03123). How will life on Earth and the ecosystems that support it adapt to climate change? Which species will ...

A scientist from Protein Evolution works in the company's New Haven, Connecticut, facility. In nature, mutations are introducted randomly into organisms. The strongest ones survive. Protein Evolution ...

Aerobic respiration began hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought, a new study suggests.