Rohan Pethiyagoda and Hiranya Sudasinghe say that they want to give the public a fish’s eye view of conservation from an ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: YueStock Shutterstock Evolution is the way groups of life-forms change over time to ...

The ability of organisms to generate adaptive genetic variation is crucial for evolutionary success, particularly in changing environments. The study investigates whether natural selection operates ...

A team, led by researchers at Bigelow Laboratory's Single Cell Genomics Center, have published the first quantitative analysis of lateral gene transfer rates in the ocean, illuminating the ...

The movement of genetic material between organisms that aren't directly related is a significant driver of evolution, especially among single-celled organisms like bacteria and archaea. A team led by ...

Daily Mail has asked some of the leading evolution experts why, if humans evolved out of primates, do monkeys and apes still ...

Performance studies have long been a cornerstone of evolutionary studies of adaptation because of their purported importance for fitness. Nevertheless, for most systems, the mechanistic link among ...