In the spring, ants are once again hard at work. Beyond their everyday presence, ants are also key model organisms in cutting ...

The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...

Graham Coop, a professor of evolution and ecology at UC Davis, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for his work on human genetics and evolution. Katrina Huynh UC Davis A professor ...

When you think about evolution, what comes to mind? Certainly, things like opposable thumbs are one factor here; so too is ...

This volume is based on the National Academy of Sciences' Colloquium on the Tempo and Mode of Evolution. The articles appearing in these pages were contributed by speakers at the colloquium and have ...

To Shakespeare’s Hamlet we humans are “the paragon of animals”. But recent advances in genetics are suggesting that humans are far from being evolution’s greatest achievement. For example, humans have ...

A study finds an increase in redheads over 10,000 years due to natural selection, highlighting ongoing human evolution and ...

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

Foreward / J.W.S. Pringle -- E.B. Ford : bibliography / M. Rothschild and H.B.D. Kettlewell -- Evolution of polymorphic systems / C.D. Darlington -- Plant evolution in extreme environments / A.D.

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution generated scientific debate and discussion not only in Darwin's own time, but for decades afterward. In the latter part of the nineteenth century and the until the ...