While developing his theory of natural selection, Charles Darwin was horrified by a group of wasps that lay their eggs within ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

A newly discovered dinosaur species has been identified from a fossil unearthed in Mongolia that represents the most complete ...

You’ve seen the memes—“everything will eventually evolve into a crab” or “crab is the ideal form”—while scrolling online. These are parodies of a real scientific concept, carcinization. In biology, ...

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

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), including scientists from the National Center of Competence in ...