F or the past century and a half, the concept of evolution has primarily been wielded by those describing change of a purely biological nature. But according to ecologist Mark Vellend, this sort of ...

Hamilton's rule, introduced in the 1960s, says that altruism—helping others at your own expense—can evolve when the benefits ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may be the result of millions of years of evolution. Rapid neuronal evolution in humans is ...

The evolutionary blueprint for hands was borrowed in part from a much older genetic plan for our nether regions, a new study ...

Li Zhao explores the unexpected emergence of de novo genes, shedding light on their crucial function in adaptation and ...

Directed evolution is usually a laborious process that often takes weeks in which proteins rapidly evolve and develop ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary ...

In a Vermont cheese cave, green mold turned white in just eight years. Genetic shifts reveal how microbes adapt quickly to dark, stable conditions.

Late-stage planetary collisions reshaped Earth and its neighboring planets, delivering water, altering their atmospheres, and ...

One hundred years ago a young teacher, John T. Scopes, went on trial in Dayton, Tenn., for violating a recently enacted state law that forbade the state’s educators “to teach any theory that denies ...

Self-correction and cultural reflexivity are crucial to psychology’s scientific role.