A study in fruit flies suggests an internal genomic arms race may be driving rapid evolution in proteins that still perform an essential, unchanging job: protecting chromosome ends.

A biologist explains the surprising evolutionary math behind how the blue whale became the largest animal that has ever lived ...

Some ants thrive by choosing numbers over strength. Instead of heavily protecting each worker, they invest fewer resources in ...

A major evolutionary theory says most genetic changes don’t really matter, but new evidence suggests that’s not true. Researchers found that helpful mutations happen surprisingly often. The twist is ...

Evolution is slow, but with the right experimental set-up—and enough time to spare—you can watch nature do its methodical ...

A new study led by UCC paleontologists discovered that frogs have conserved their ecology in the last 45 million years. The ...

New research shows that losing threatened requiem shark species could erase millions of years of tooth evolution and squeeze the genus Carcharhinus into a narrower ecological role. So, what happens to ...

Every living being must cope with a changing world—summer gives way to winter, one year it floods and the next is a drought.

Co-evolutionary genetics of ecological communities offers a new understanding of adaptation and gene function that cannot be obtained from genomic data without an ecological context. Some ...

We humans evolved to be social creatures. By gaining the skills to cooperate with others, we were able to stave off predators, eat more consistently, and care for each other’s young, allowing our ...

The proposal that evolution could be used as a metaphor for problem solving came with the invention of the computer 1. In the 1970s and 1980s the principal idea was developed into different ...

Discover how evolutionary economics explains economic change, emphasizing psychological influences and societal dynamics, with historic insights and practical examples.