A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, finds that changes in animal development induced by climate shock persist ...

Eva Jablonka is a professor emerita at the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University, Israel. Evolution Evolving: The Developmental Origins of Adaptation ...

A new study by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology (MPI-EB) sheds fresh light on one of the most debated concepts in biology: evolvability. The work provides the first ...

The islands are volcanic in origin and were never attached to any continent. Galápagos wildlife arrived by flying, floating or swimming. Birds might have flown there by accident and decided to settle ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Many people hold the view that evolution in humans has come to a halt. But while modern medicine and technologies have ...

Environmental change doesn’t affect evolution in a single, predictable way. In large-scale computer simulations, scientists discovered that some fluctuating conditions help populations evolve higher ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Scientists have uncovered new evidence suggesting that autism may have it roots in how the human brain has evolved. "Our ...

What would you contribute to the world of ecology and evolution if you could access the combined wisdom of faculty from more than a dozen disciplines that span the earth, biological and computational ...