In my opinion, the theory of evolution by natural selection is one of the most elegant and by far one of the most encompassing theories humanity has ever come up with. Even though it was originally ...

Called “Lamarckian Inheritance,” the theory suggests that those experiences can even be passed down to future generations.

When most people think about natural selection, they imagine individuals competing with one another: The fastest animal escapes predators, the strongest plant produces more seeds, and the most ...

Shedding some genetically induced excess baggage may have helped a tiny fish thrive in freshwater and outsize its marine ancestors, according to a new study in Science. Shedding some genetically ...

For well over a century, Darwin’s theory of natural selection has served as biology’s grand unifying framework, explaining how species adapt and evolve through the differential replication of randomly ...

Natural selection is the process by which some organisms in a population survive and reproduce, while others do not, based on their bodies and behaviour. It is one of the processes by which species ...

Beata Ujvari receives funding from ARC, Ian Potter Foundation, CNRS France, Australian Academy of Science. Essential organs tasked with keeping us alive and reproducing – such as the heart, brain or ...